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For the past year, the teacher union Unified Association of Conejo Teachers (UACT) and the Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) have been negotiating about salary, caseload, health insurance, etc. However, the tentative agreement does not sufficiently meet the needs of our teachers. Teachers have not been getting paid enough, and this new tentative…
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The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is coming to town. The easiest way to summarize the WBC is simply by attempting to visit their website under the CVUSD firewall. Type in “Westboro Baptist Church” and click the first link you see — the organization’s official homepage. The site, which you will notice has the url…
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Violence against women of color is omnipresent. We listen to it, we read about it, we watch it happen and yet it still seems to be treated like white noise in the background of “bigger” issues. Why has the conversation of the African-American girls missing from Washington D.C. since 2017 stopped? Did you know…
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The idea that guns are untouchable because of the Second Amendment follows an aged dogmatism that makes no sense in 2018. While mental health issues and toxic masculinity are probable and well-founded causes of gun violence, it does not absolve guns from blame. Yes people kill people, but guns make it easy. If a…
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We are the ones most impacted by school board decisions, and we are the ones with the responsibility of electing officials who will not only hear our suggestions but also listen and implement them. We are tasked with selecting trustees that are deserving of our trust to fulfill our needs with moral integrity. Students,…
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A political agenda, as defined by “The Practice of American Public Policymaking,” is a list of subjects or problems to which government officials as well as individuals outside the government are paying serious attention at any given time. Considering the modern connotation of the phrase, you might be surprised that there is no mention…
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First Amendment rights do not stop at the schoolhouse gate. This was a common mantra among student protesters during the 1960s as the Vietnam War prompted conflicts between school publications and administration. Articles containing anti-war sentiments were censored, so teachers and advisers worked to find a way to allow students to express their opinions…
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We are taught to praise those that commit acts of civil disobedience: Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry David Thoreau. But when students at our school and around the country emulate this lauded behavior, the public eye turns into a glare. Civil disobedience, as defined by Merriam Webster, is “the refusal to obey governmental…
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After years of mistreating teachers, the government has the audacity to be surprised when they demand better conditions. If we expect our student body to receive a quality education, the government needs to take a moment, evaluate itself and realize that doing the bare minimum does absolutely nothing to fix problems. There is a…
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In October, we wrote an editorial demanding that the United States government take action on gun control to prevent another tragedy like the Las Vegas shooting. We are writing another editorial because the Feb. 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School made it clear that action is still needed. In a neighborhood…