Lack of distinction in STEM hoods upsetting
Morgan Chung, Staff Reporter
May 23, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Let’s get one thing straight: there is a difference between STEM Diploma and STEM Scholar. At graduation, there is no physical distinction between the two levels of STEM and that has caused a lot of unrest among Scholars. We have worked hard for four long years, taking extra classes and all hono...
Boos & Hoorays: 2017-18 one for the (history) books
May 23, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Twenty-eighteen has become a historic year before even reaching June. The country has seen activism by students and teachers alike, the anticipation of another royal wedding, and an internet meme as divisive as “the dress” in the Laurel versus Yanny debate. With this much happening in the first part...
Moving graduation loses sentiment of seniors’ last hurrah on Perry campus
Mia Irvin, Editor-in-Chief
May 23, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Freshman year we stepped onto Perry’s campus as 14-year-olds who didn’t know the lunchroom from the library. We gradually got our feet on the ground, and found our tribes. We joined clubs and tried out for sports teams and auditioned for plays and dance concerts. We became apart of the Perry cultu...
Nostalgia aside, Wells Fargo is best option for Gilbert-sized families
Lauren Fountain, Opinions Editor
May 23, 2018
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Picture this: it’s graduation. The night you have worked the past thirteen years to get to, the moment where your accomplishments of adolescence peak. You show up to the stadium, and parking is obsolete. Your aunts and uncles have to park a mile away, and your elderly great-grandmother has to walk t...
Top 5: Opinions Section
Mia Irvin, Editor-in-Chief
May 22, 2018
Filed under Opinions
2018 has been an intense school year. The headlines were dominated by a new controversial event daily, which means debates were heated and issues were divisive. But throughout all this chaos, people united under common opinions and found solace in one another’s understanding. The Precedent has compiled a list of our top op...
A Minute with Mia: #RedForEd gave Ariz. teachers due recognition
Mia Irvin, Editor-in-Chief
May 22, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Teachers made history by calling out sick. At first glance, this statement seems like a farce. But it is true. On April 26, teachers across Ariz. united under the movement called #RedForEd, and made history by initiating the very first strike of the state’s educators. 78 percent of teachers said t...
A Minute With Mia: White feminism misses force of intersectionality, total inclusion
Mia Irvin, Editor-in-Chief
May 15, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Along with the iconic green Shamrock Shakes and the somewhat tolerable temperatures, March also brought us Women’s History Month. In 1987, Congress officially declared March the month of women after pushes from individual states and lobbyists. The month is to honor the suffragettes of the 1920s that fought ...
Decline of malls creates room for small businesses
Ian Graham, A&E Editor
May 15, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Resulting from the growth of consumerism and the influx of baby boomer youth, shopping malls sprouted from American soil and flourished across the country during the 1950s and ‘60s. While their main purpose was to make goods more readily available to suburban shoppers, these malls were soon ove...
Student activism at school encourages political involvement in young people
Mia Irvin, Editor-in-Chief
May 15, 2018
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
On Apr. 20, 2018, students across the country planned to step up and walk out, continuing the conversation on gun violence that has followed the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. At Perry, hundreds of students left their classrooms to voice their opinions for a m...
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