A new App has flooded Staples High School’s hallways. Like the plague, or a tsunami, or something equally devastating, it has wrecked havoc. Students are glassy-eyed, staring at their phones and swiping...

Slug-like students, drunk with exhaustion, trudge into a classroom that feels, to them, much more like a prison cell. Eyelids are heavy and “the excitement of learning” seems like more than an abstract...

Displayed outside the auditorium is work from the first semester’s art classes. The fall art show is made to coordinate with the scheduling of the Candlelight Concert; there is another art show in May,...