https://youtu.be/CniJvsfr1zc This week's edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Jayla Nickens-Gill and Bre'Onna Clowney with production assistance from Ronan Guilfoyle. ...
Doing the Right Thing by Jayla Nickens-Gill How do you help someone who won’t even help themself? How do you be there for someone who has given up on so much in life? How do you do the right thing, even when it’s hard? I went to school with a girl. I won’t say her name for privacy reasons, but she was always sad and depressed. She never wanted to try anything or do anything. She would sit by herself and just exist, didn’t look like she was even alive, she probably didn’t feel alive. I would stare at her, trying to figure out what she was thinking about, and ways I could help her, but my mind was blank. I could’ve just gone on with my life, not caring about this girl like all the other students, but I couldn't. I knew I had to help her. One day I decided that I would be a person she could rely on. When I went to school that day, she was sitting down at one of the lunch tables reading a book. As I made my way over to her, I stopped in my tracks as I watched as the “mean” girl pushed the sad girl off the chair. The “mean” girl was way taller than me and the sad girl. I walked over and helped the girl off the floor. That’s when I noticed the cuts on her arm. I felt like someone kicked me in the stomach. I felt like I was going to vomit after seeing...
https://youtu.be/wkzMn9CiLvg This week's edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by students Destiny Grimes and Iliana Benitez-Cruz with technical assistance from Ronan Guilfoyle. ...
It's Not Easy Being Tiny by Chase Christou I’m short. Like very short. Too short. Being short is a weird, and cool experience. It’s sometimes depressing, and sometimes really great. I sort of feel bad for tall people. You'll never get to experience being short and standing next to a huge building and just feeling so tiny. If you’re tall you’ll still most likely feel tiny but being short just makes it so much better. Some history about me. I’ve been short all my life. In middle school I was around 4’6. Yeah short. Going through middle school for me being short was a semi-humbling and quite fun experience you could call it. Luckily for me I had a pretty good group of friends, I mean they still teased me of course. Can’t escape that. But they were nice. The other kids in the school weren’t extremely mean either. So I’d say my middle school journey was quite lucky actually, and I enjoyed it. Fast forward to high school and now I’m around 5’3. Grew a lot during quarantine. Pretty cool how that works. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m still short. I’m just a lot taller. I’m glad I’m here in this school, I don’t know if I would have been able to survive public highschool. Now that I'm here for 4 years hopefully, I have time to grow both physically and mentally. But I don’t really care too much about being the tallest person in the class. Of course I don’t want to go back to being...
https://youtu.be/DOFFp8iIW_E This week's edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Ronan Guilfoyle and Joshua Sharp with technical assistance from Iliana Benitez-Cruz. ...
https://youtu.be/ChHoRPfPh88 This week's edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Ethan Christou and Kevin Brown with technical assistance from Ronan Guilfoyle. ...
https://youtu.be/_vJhIwlHPag This is the 1st edition of TCS Student News for the 2020-2021 school year. It was researched, written, produced and anchored by students Destiny Grimes and Jayla Nickens-Gill with technical work by Ronan Guilfoyle. ...
A new TCS Alumni Association was launched last night. Organized by Americorps/VISTA volunteer and TCS graduate Donald Lacy, there was a spirited reunion and meeting at the school. After everyone had a turn updating each other about their lives, the group decided to continue to meet and develop an organization. Purposes included supporting the school, networking, doing service and social activities. The founding members are Dyrrell Moon, Salma Ruiz-Cruz, Marcus McKeever, Daj'a White, Sadie Greenwood, Janiah Tillery, Elias Harris, Claude Nicholson and Donald Lacy. ...
Thank you to all of those folks who came out despite the rain to support our Yard Sale yesterday! It was a successful event - great to see neighbors and friends, folks walked away with some great stuff at amazing prices and money was raised for the school!For those of you who didn't come out because of the rain, you can still get many great items on YARD SALE PART 2 this Saturday, August 28th, from 10AM to 2PM. A Special Thanks to our great crew! Donald did a great job pulling this event together and coordinating it. Ms. Leah has been the other key person on the team who has been working all summer to prepare for this event. Thank you to the rest of the day of event crew: Ryan, Fleesie, Dave, Jenae, Leandra, Quinn, Tom and Olivia. ...
https://youtu.be/z06uoFgL2jY This final edition of TCS Student News for the 2020-2021 School Term was researched, written, produced and anchored by Claude Nicholson and Salma Ruiz-Cruz. ...