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The Student News Site of Roswell High School

The Sting

The Student News Site of Roswell High School

The Sting

All content by April McBride
The Application forest that is home to mutilple national parks. The National Park service offers hundreds of youth programs for your gap year that range from 6 months to 2 years and some even offer free housing and food. This is another great option for your gap year. Photo Credit: Macey Macathur

You Need To Take A Gap Year

April McBride April 17, 2021

In a few weeks, I will be graduating from Roswell High School and come September, will be starting a new life for myself in Milan, Italy. While reading through old notes, I found one entry from sophomore...

A sign up in the D hallway by yearbook staff to spread positivity through sharing notes, since COVID happened looks more bare and empty. A good reflection of struggling to find connection when forced to be separate. Photo by Jordan Freeman

How do we effectively prevent suicide?

April McBride February 21, 2021

Suicide in adolescents aged 12-19 have increased by 70% from 2006-2016, making it the 2nd leading cause of death for high school students. As the suicide rates have continued to tick up, a question is...

Protestors in Atlanta climbed on CNN sign in the front of network headquarters on Friday May, 29th.
Credit: Ben Gray/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mainstream News isn’t Working for the Working Class

April McBride November 20, 2020

Mainstream news media is not only fundamentally broken, but is and has always been fundamentally disinvested from the communities, cities and countries it claims to serve. These organizations, no matter...

Understanding how language is used in eating disorder treatment is a good jumping off point for changing the way we talk about food and eating in the general public. In these centers it is not considered acceptable to discuss numbers of any kind, or assign values to food. Using rules of treatment in normal life can make it easier to transition your own communication.
Credit: Penn Medicine Princeton Health Treatment Center

We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Food

April McBride November 17, 2020

You can't ignore the buzzing sounds of your sick world and the sick people who live in it. You by proxy must listen in and though you will try at all times to cover your ears and take the appropriate measures...

Roswell students participating in a caravan protest on canton street this summer. Students include seniors Erin Lanier, Rajath Prabhakar, and April McBride. Photo Credit: April McBride

Rise of Anti-Protest Laws Correlate to Rise of Fascism

April McBride November 4, 2020

In the last four years, thirty-six states have passed some form of anti-protest laws. These have mostly come as a preventive measure after the 2016 South Dakota pipeline protests to ensure a event similar...

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