The student news site of Portage Northern High School

The Northern Light

The student news site of Portage Northern High School

The Northern Light

The student news site of Portage Northern High School

The Northern Light

School shootings run deeper than gun control

School shootings run deeper than gun control

Gabbie Byers, Staff Writer February 27, 2018

As the new year begins to kick in there has been a total of 18 instances of fire arms on school property in just two months. Throughout the United States, millions of parents are sending their children...

Lunch passes are a rip off

Lunch passes are a rip off

Lexi Kava, Entertainment Editor February 15, 2018

As the new semester just rolled in, so did the deadline for buying a new lunch pass. Students scramble through their wallets and backpacks, desperate to find five dollars, and for what? To be able to leave...

What is popularity?

What is popularity?

Snigda Narisetty, Staff Writer February 14, 2018

Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens stole our hearts in the classic Disney channel movie “High School Musical.” The popular high school boy falling in love with the nerdy new girl is a common plot displaying...

School falls short in preparing us for the real world

School falls short in preparing us for the real world

Trinity Woodruff, Staff Writer February 13, 2018

“Give a man a fish, he will eat for 7 days, teach him how to fish, and he will have food for a lifetime.” This parable should be the goal of the American education system, but they are missing the...

Foreign language classes: just a graduation requirement or an investment in your future?

Foreign language classes: just a graduation requirement or an investment in your future?

Snigda Narisetty, Staff Writer February 13, 2018

Checking off requirement after requirement for high school graduation can become tiresome. Many students feel that some classes are unnecessary such as the mandatory two years of foreign language. Despite...

Sorry Boy Scouts, but the Girl Scouts dont need you

Sorry Boy Scouts, but the Girl Scouts don’t need you

Meredith Ablao, News Editor November 20, 2017

In the early 1900’s, two major organizations, the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts, set social goals and standards as well as boundaries and rules. Even today, both wear, enjoy, and learn many of the same...

Rumors should not be a normalized part of high school culture

Rumors should not be a normalized part of high school culture

Kylie Clifton, Journalism 1 Staff Writer November 20, 2017

Rumors, the wretched thing practically any teenager nowadays has either experienced or taken part in.A rumor is generally considered to be a currently circulating story or report of an uncertain, doubtful,...

The current homework load is not reasonable

The current homework load is not reasonable

Jackson Graham, Journalism 1 Staff Writer November 13, 2017

  We’ve all been there, it’s late at night and we don’t have the energy or the time to finish our homework.  So instead, we write down random answers to questions to get a completion...

School lunches taste like cardboard, barely have more nutrition

School lunches taste like cardboard, barely have more nutrition

November 7, 2017

Let’s all admit it. School lunch is a disaster. The variety of mystery meat and the cardboard posing as “bread” has been a bane to kids too lazy to pack their own lunch since forever. Hundreds of...

Underclassmen should be allowed to go off campus for lunch

Underclassmen should be allowed to go off campus for lunch

Zach Lewis, Journalism 1 Staff Writer November 7, 2017

Our school, along with many other schools,  has the policy that only upperclassmen can go off campus for lunch. Almost all reasons as to why underclassmen are unable to go off campus for lunch stem off...

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