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The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

Students create posters to promote the Voices of Change virtual conference. These posters were put around the school to encourage students to attend.

Voices of Change Conference allows students to be heard

Esmeralda Palma-Andrade and Gigi Zawislak February 22, 2023

"Following George Floyd's murder, Stillwater Schools district administration, and staff received an Open Letter from a group of Black Alumni," Office of Achievement and Integration Coordinator, Eric Anderson...

Cultural Liaison Cornelius Rish presents a piece as Tom Robinson from 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee in the Main Forum. He presented to a ninth-grade class to help teach the history of race and the significance of slurs used in books.

Administration takes step towards racial justice with Achievement and Integration Plan

Cassidy Gilliam, Photography Editor October 27, 2020

In response to students’ push for racial justice, administration implemented their new 2020-2023 Achievement and Integration Plan with five main areas of focus. The first area of focus is student programming,...

AVID teacher Brandon Maxwell teaches his students valuable study skills to prepare for college. College prep is a focus of the class. A majority of AVID students end up getting accepted to their college of choice.

AVID elective prepares students for college

Jameson Stahl, Online Editor-in-Chief May 10, 2019

AVID is a program offered in the district that is meant to give middle academic students an extra boost on their path to college. Most students enrolled are the first in their family to go to college,...

The private page is not easily accessible. In order to gain access one has to know someone in the group, request that they allow them to request to join the group and then get accepted. This makes it incredibly difficult to use the conversations in the group as evidence to the public of maltreatment and malice because it is difficult to ascertain in the first place.

Three school board members exemplify the bystander effect in private Facebook group

Hannah Sween, Print Editor-in-Chief April 12, 2019

There is a secret Facebook group called “Support Our Schools - 834 Unites.” It does not show up on the search page, the only way to gain access is by requesting admission from one of its current members....

The Broad Spectrum team meets Thursdays at 3:15 p.m. The team discusses future plans for their broad spectrum camp that will begin in the summer.

Broad Spectrum opens mind to new ideas

Sierra Hippel, Distribution Reporter April 5, 2019

"There are people who are really hateful in the world, who judge people off of their gender, sexual orientation, race and more. We want to be able to use all those as creativity, and as an outlet for kids...

At a board meeting on Feb. 21, Shahd Abouhekel read aloud her poem titled "I Am From Palestine." In her poem, she speaks of her experience with oppression, violence and abuse.

EIC Column: Palestinians aim to have their voices heard

Lilly Sample, Online Editor-in-Chief March 10, 2019

On May 14, 1948, Israel became an independent State with David Ben-Gurion as the Prime Minister. What many in the world thought of as a movement to solve anti-semitism became the beginning of a Palestinian...

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