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At Kingswood Oxford the third and fourth forms are required to participate in at least one season of an Option A sport. They can also do one season of Option B, and then one season of A, B, or C. The fifth form is required to participate in one season of Option A; and two […]
Read MoreThe land of Milk and Honey has come to earth. It has been consolidated, abridged, and translated within the confinements of the English language. Heaven is a two hundred eight-page poetry collection detailing the experiences of a young woman of color in terse, emotive, occasionally indecipherable lines accompanied by simplistic black pencil drawings. These drawings […]
Read MoreWe need to have a discussion about Privilege. No, not that privilege. I mean we can certainly have a conversation about it, but in this case, I’m referring to another type of privilege: Attorney-Client Privilege. Surely most people have heard about this, whether they’ve watched a legal drama before or something or other, but for […]
Read MoreOver the past decade, and even the past few years, teen anxiety and depression rates have risen exponentially. Whether it’s because of school, social media, social standards, or just life in general, teenagers have a lot to carry around everyday on their shoulders. Anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and other mental illnesses can almost all be […]
Read MoreAs many KO students wonder what career they should pursue after college, they likely gravitate to the subject they did best at in school whether that’s art, science, English, math, history or any other variations of those broad topics. But what changes once we get closer to college? Many students and parents view STEM careers […]
Read MoreAs fun as it is to burn all your bridges senior year, I’d like to end my KO News Opinions tenure with an apology. It’s one that has been weighing on my conscious for the past few months. I want to apologize to Taylor Swift. For the past several years I have done her music […]
Read MoreOne of the latest controversies in the US has been the anti-vax movement. Recently, I began to question the effect an anti-vaxxer parent could have on their children. Could a child be vaccinated while still a minor, and if they couldn’t, how would this affect them? First, I researched the movement’s evidence. The anti-vax movement […]
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For my final article I am going to be sharing my opinions on what it has been like sharing my opinions with the school for the last three years. Whoa… KO News inception. I pretty much knew after I completed the journalism course during the first semester of my sophomore year, that I would want […]
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Famed transcendentalist and individualist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face.” While these words hold credence in many facets of modern society, nowhere are they more relevant than the current American education system. Growing up, we […]
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Rapper 21 Savage was taken into ICE custody on February 3 of this year, two days after he released a video for his song, “A Lot,” which criticized the Trump administration’s immigration policy. His case has quickly become the most notable deportation case in recent years, shining a light on the many flaws in the […]
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