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Students Struggle with Mental Health With New School Year

Students Struggle with Mental Health With New School Year

Darriona Wilson, Student Writer September 19, 2025

School started on August 13th this year. Some students love and adore school, but for others, they could care less about it and despise school.  Unfortunately, this is nothing new when a new school...

Limited Parking Passes!

Carter Toponak, Student Writer September 19, 2025

There are more student drivers than there are parking passes. Parking passes are limited so students are rushing to fill out the form for a parking pass. Underclassmen who don't have their license yet...

HOSA Club Opens Up Opportunities for Students

HOSA Club Opens Up Opportunities for Students

Prepti Panta, Student Writer September 19, 2025

Are you a Frederick Douglass High School student who didn’t get into the health science pathway because it filled up too quickly? Do you want to follow your dreams in the health professions? If so, the...

Heavy Traffic Causes Delays

Asha Oldman, Student Writer September 19, 2025

FDHS students and teachers are extremely angered by the nearby traffic issues during both the morning and afternoon as they struggle to arrive at school and work on time. Each morning, the car line...

Locked Bathrooms

Locked Bathrooms

Stella Lashbrook, Student Writer September 18, 2025

The bathrooms at Douglass are causing many student frustrations.  Complaints you often hear amongst the students: the bathrooms are always locked, the 15/15 rule is unfair, teachers are getting mad,...

New Year, New App

New Year, New App

Claire Halloran, Student Writer September 18, 2025

Many are confused over Kentucky’s Senate Bill 181, banning online personal communication between students and teachers. Senate Bill 181 has required all public schools in Kentucky to implement a traceable...

Morning Traffic Headache

Morning Traffic Headache

Saleh Kashindi, Student Writer September 17, 2025

Students at FDHS are frustrated with dismissal and transportation issues. Many say buses arrive late in the morning and take too long to leave in the afternoon. This makes it hard for students to get to...

Cell Phones are Banned in the Classroom

Cell Phones are Banned in the Classroom

Kcen Edwards, Student Writer September 17, 2025

Not everyone is enjoying this cell phone ban, and it's understandable. Kids are getting out of hand and aren’t doing their part on giving up the phone.  “I get that they can be distracting, but...

FDHS is Mourning the Loss of Matthew Perrine

FDHS is Mourning the Loss of Matthew Perrine

Kendall Houser May 6, 2025

A Frederick Douglass junior and baseball player, Matthew Perrine, recently died in a tragic car accident on Saturday the 26th. Our community planned a celebration of life on May 4th from 3 pm to 5:30 pm...

Douglass Ambassadors

Emina Veljacic, Student Writer April 30, 2025

This week at FDHS, applications have been handed out to students for the ambassadors program. We spoke to a few students currently in the program to ask about their personal experiences and what the program...

Freshman College Tour

Freshman College Tour

Tairynn Byrd, Student Writer April 30, 2025

On the 22nd of April, freshmen went all over the city to tour colleges and scope out their potential school choices to further plan their future. Students were spread among University of Louisville,...

Justin’s Place HOSA Field Trip

Jezebel Sanchez Hernandez, Student Writer April 30, 2025

On April 14th, 2025, HOSA went on a field trip to Justin's Place in Wilmore, Ky. The place is ran by a registered nurse and the goal in visiting was to show the students a different kind of career opportunity...

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