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...

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...

  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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Students interacting with each other during lunch. “Being in person because there's so much more to it than just learning. It just creates a different environment," sophomore Isabelle Kraemer said.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...