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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.

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Karla Lee

Karla Lee, Staff Writer

Karla Lee is a junior at Carlmont High School and the Social Media and Marketing Manager. This is her third year in the journalism program. She enjoys learning about students’ perspectives on topics related to the Bay Area. She has a passion for business and art. To check out her portfolio, click here.

Twitter: @KarlaL_12

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A crowd of small products are placed right before checkout to entice shoppers to make last-minute purchases.

Store layout determines consumers’ shopping habits

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • November 30, 2022

Entering a retail store, the first thing a person will do is turn right. Coincidence? Not so much. The majority of U.S. retail stores purposefully design their store to steer the customer to turn right.  According...

Hailey North, a senior, signs up for Green Team during Carlmont High School's annual Clubs Fair, an event for clubs to recruit new members.

Finding ‘your thing’: Clubs Fair 2022

Grace Wu and Karla Lee • September 20, 2022

A rallygoer holds a poster with the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

Russia vs. Ukraine: A conflict decades in the making

Hudson Fox, Marrisa Chow, Jasneh Sasan, Sienna Reinders, Charlotte Gordon, Hayes Gaboury, Audrey Burnley, Karla Lee, and Annabel Chia • March 8, 2022

Some females have to look at the prices of period products to determine which one they can afford.

Normalize menstruation

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • February 15, 2022

It's that time of the month again. My thing started. Niagara Falls. Strawberry Season. Bad luck.  These are some of the many terms that girls use all over the world instead of the word "period." It’s...

With next year’s change to world history, students worry about the amount of workload.

World History to replace European History at Carlmont

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • December 4, 2021

  Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, a World History and AP (Advanced Placement) World History will replace the current Carlmont curriculum for sophomores of European History and AP European...

Chloe Chun and Juliana Wong practice the wrist grab technique to prepare for any future dangerous situations.

Carlmont club teaches students self-defense

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • November 11, 2021

Self-Defense For Girls Club offers students lessons to learn quick techniques to protect themselves from dangerous situations and strives to lower the rates of sexual violence.  Upon first glance,...

Paper allows students to access tutoring online 24/7 for anything from feedback on essays to help with math problems. “I really like how they are really fast, and it’s really easy to upload everything. Everything is very straightforward,” Haley Chen, a senior at Carlmont, said.

Paper’s tutors provide students with inconsistent support

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • October 23, 2021

The tutoring website Paper has recently risen in popularity among students at Carlmont after frequent referrals by Carlmont staff members.  However, there have been inconsistencies in the quality of tutoring...

Students change in the locker room to get ready for their PE class. “This is a safe place to grow comfortable with changing your clothes in a public space because when you go to college, you are going to have to live with roommates,” Ame Secrist said.

Discomfort invades the locker rooms

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • October 2, 2021

Changing in a locker room can be a major stressor and discomfort-inducing experience for many students due to a sheer lack of privacy surrounding the locker room environment. When students start out...

Carlmont students walk to their next class during passing period after the entire student body returned to school in August for the new school year.

Return to school stirs up mixed emotion among students

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • September 10, 2021

The transition to in-person learning after well over a year of online learning has been an abrupt and difficult transition for many Carlmont students and staff. “Just all of a sudden, you have to...

During the pandemic, custodians, like Irwin Dillon and Gary Hogan, don’t clean the classrooms unless requested, so they are usually outside, cleaning the grounds and doing their projects. “We’ve been able to do some maintenance and projects that we wouldn’t normally be able to accomplish,” Steunenberg said.

Custodians’ work goes unnoticed

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • January 25, 2021

The job of custodians is always behind the scenes: the morning crew is outside during classes, and the insides are cleaned after hours by the night crew. Some students and teachers don’t have the...

Yoga helps students relax and destress after a long week of school. “The club meetings are so fun, and I really enjoy them. I have such a passion for the club,” Becker said.

Yoga benefits mental health

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • December 7, 2020

As schools continue, clubs are resuming through the use of Zoom due to the pandemic. One of the clubs that has resumed with their lessons is the Yoga Club.  In 2017, a Carlmont sophomore, Iman Sarsour,...

Although distance learning has made it hard to learn dance, it doesn’t stop the dancers from learning. “I feel like I’m constantly learning, no matter what it is, and this year I have learned a lot of new things as well,” said sophomore Alice Finkelstein.

Dancers leap through challenges

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • November 15, 2020

Dance classes are adapting their lessons to distance learning, similar to physical education (PE) and weight training classes.  Because teachers have a hard time teaching dance through Zoom, they use...

As test dates are nearing, students are beginning to study and taking as much practice tests as possible.

SAT and ACT cancellation influences high school students’ future

Karla Lee, Staff Writer • October 26, 2020

SATs and ACTs are not taking place in many places and were canceled multiple times at Carlmont High School due to the pandemic. The Carlmont administrators sent out an announcement on Aug. 20 about...

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