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The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Scot Scoop News

The student news site of Carlmont High School in Belmont, California.

Scot Scoop News

Jacob Galatin

Jacob Galatin, Staff Writer

Jacob Galatin (class of 2027) is a sophomore at Carlmont and a first-year journalist for Scots Scoop. Outside of writing news beats, Jacob enjoys playing cello and running for Carlmont. He runs a writing club at Carlmont and enjoys playing music with friends.

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Google runs advertisements, ranging from billboards to online ads, in around 200 countries. Apple and Meta also run ad campaigns spanning multiple continents. In order to maintain their popularity, large technology corporations must expand billboard advertising to high school campuses.

Satire: Carlmont needs Big Tech billboards

Jacob Galatin, Staff Writer May 29, 2025

Big Tech companies must install billboards throughout the Carlmont campus to ensure students trust the latest technology, from computers to smartphones. Teenagers are becoming more skeptical of large...

President Donald Trump has emphasized the importance of faith in the United States during all three of his presidential campaigns. Trump joked that he would want to lead the Catholic World a week ago, provoking criticism across the United States. Trump, however, has a better option: becoming the pope of Trumpism.

Satire: Give Trump a religion to run

Jacob Galatin, Staff Writer May 11, 2025

It's time for President Donald Trump to start his own religion officially.  After offending many Catholics with an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself as pope, Trump should declare...

Students at Carlmont often read history textbooks that contain bias. According to the Antiracist Praxis study on textbook bias by American University, commercially produced textbooks often advance Eurocentric and American exceptionalist narratives.

Opinion: Students must question history

Jacob Galatin, Staff Writer March 1, 2025

“When are we going to learn real history?”  After a semester of Carlmont's relatively new and adaptive ethnic studies course, freshmen wonder why “history” changed so much. Because students...

As he aims to solve the nation's most pressing issues, President Donald Trump insists that buying Greenland is an absolute necessity. Danish officials have rejected Trump's calls to give up Greenland. Nevertheless, acquiring Greenland from Denmark should be a top priority for all Americans.

Satire: The US must buy Greenland

Jacob Galatin, Staff Writer January 31, 2025

Any American willing to put the United States first must help President Donald Trump liberate Greenland. Trump said in a press conference last week that he would buy Greenland with the full support...

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