As Ginger Colamussi and District 97 parent Mika Yamamoto drove into the city to the ACLU office, they discussed their excitement about meeting other members of the Illinois Gender Equity task force.
“We were a little nervous...
In late August, the district released plans to restructure the freshmen curriculum. Freshmen class offerings, with the exception of math, will no longer offer an honors options. This change will be implemented in 2022 school year...
As students walk the halls the Monday before Homecoming, one can’t help but notice the matching Hawaiian-themed clothes. It’s officially spirit week.
Each day, students are sent an email with a link to remind them to vote...
On Aug. 30, the OPRF girls swim team held a swim-a-thon to raise money for a water well to be installed in an impoverished community in Swaziland.
The swim team partnered with the Thirst Project, an organization dedicated to bringing cl...
As the summer dwindled and the school year drew closer, the school sent an email to its returning students and faculty. In this, the school informed students and faculty that an advisory period had been added after second period....
Last year, OPRF elected to add advisory periods to class schedules. Advisory is a 15-minute period in which teachers read the announcements and students can bond with their peers, as well as a non-academic adult figure. This new ...
As Erin Wavrek approached senior year, panic set in when she realized she hadn’t fulfilled her applied arts requirement. Word was going around of a new nursing program being offered through the school, and it immediately dr...
It is April 4 at around 9 pm, and Tom Cosky sits crouched over his buzzing phone in his darkened living room. His heartbeat pulses as he watches the numbers rise and fall, as if keeping time with his anxiousness.
The April 4...
