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PHS Principal Rick Dormer said the seniors are a role model to the younger students who have to wait years to don their own high school caps and gowns....
Annie Christensen, left, and Aiden Luhr, right were elected as Petersburg High School's 2021 prom queen and king by the senior class....
Whereas high school graduates once felt compelled to enroll in college the fall after receiving their high school diplomas, nowadays a greater number of teens are opting to take time off between graduating high school and going to college. Known as a ‘gap year,’ this trend has become increasingly popular in recent years. According to the American Gap Association, attendance at Gap Year Fairs, which aim to bring together Gap Year organizations, interested students and parents, has increased by 294 percent since 2010. While there are no sta...
The Petersburg High School Class of 2021 will be receiving their diplomas in a ceremony similar to years past. Although this class of graduating seniors is made up of just 28 students, PHS Principal Rick Dormer said they're a class that is bound to do great things in the future. In 2020, 36 seniors graduated from PHS, and about 40 graduated the year before that. The larger classes easily made their presence known in the high school. But the 2021 class is different. Dormer said this year's...
Many students believe that the next natural step after graduating from high school is to go off to college. Secondary education has become such a common transition that many parents begin saving for college tuition as soon as their children are born. Although college can be the next chapter in a student’s education, many teenagers still choose to attend trade school. Television personality Mike Rowe says the country is in the midst of a skilled labor shortage because workers lack the necessary training to fill the hundreds of thousands of a...
Technology is essential in the daily lives of students. Whether it’s kids learning their ABC’s or graduate students pursuing advanced degrees, technology has transformed the way lessons are taught and learned. Statistics support the notion that technology in the classroom is irreplaceable. According to data from the tutoring resource PracTutor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and various colleges, 98 percent of schools have one or more computers in the classroom. In addition, 77 percent of teachers use the internet for instruction, while 40 per...
Graduates, especially college graduates, wear some unique and impressive duds for their graduation ceremonies. Caps, gowns, tassels, and hoods all can be seen parading down the center aisle before making proud appearances at diploma presentations. Graduation clothing, also known as academic dress, dates back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Clerical garb was standard dress for professors and scholars, as many students during medieval times made certain religious vows in addition to pursuing their educations. Today, faculty, graduates...
Twenty-eight Petersburg High School seniors will be graduating on Monday, May 24. Back row from left to right: Keston Lyons-Cardenas, Colby Snovell and Max Marohl. Middle row from left to right: Isaiah Slaven, Kingston Buckner, Liam Demko, Tristan Enriquez, Owen O'Brocta, Issac Vinson, Julian Cumps, Brennan Skeek, Mattias Volk, Brekin Davis and Aiden Luhr. Front row from left to right: Shayla Madole, Julie Olsen, Aaliyah Felizardo, Lydia Martin, Sage Johnston, Annie Christensen, Leesa Murph,...
