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Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Freedom Area High School's Student Newspaper

FHS Press

Cell phone usage affects learning

Cell phone usage affects learning

March 28, 2025

Whether scrolling through social media, messaging friends and family or playing games, cell phones have become extremely popular, especially among teenagers. While cell phones do offer a wide range of...

Product to producer: Students are molded to become great employees rather than great thinkers. They are products of today’s schooling system, expected to become producers of tomorrow’s industries.

The inevitable decline of American education

Calla Reynolds, Managing Editor March 28, 2025

In the early 1800s, Prussia—located in a fragment of modern day Germany—adopted a model of education that would produce ideal citizens. These ideal citizens were individuals who were incapable of feeling...

Out of gas: Feeling burnt out, Seniors often struggle towards the end of the year. With the finish line in reach, it is easy to just give up.

Senioritis: Real, not an excuse

Christopher Denkovich, Editor-in-Cheif March 28, 2025

Feeling allergic to homework? Struggling with grades and deadlines that you were once obsessed with? Find yourself skating by and doing the bare minimum? Congratulations, you might have senioritis! Students...

The winter blues: Seasonal depression is very common among students across the district. This depression has become more common throughout teens in recent years.

Seasonal depression affects students districtwide

Caden Beringer, Copy Editor March 28, 2025

The constant weather changes throughout Western Pennsylvania spark constant mood swings and mood changes throughout the student body. Seasonal depression is very prominent throughout teens; however, most...

Making the decision: Diving into something most are not ready for, marriage tends to end in wrongful acts and untrustworthy outcomes. The balance between benefits and detriments weigh more on the negative side.

Marriage proposes problems

Editorial Board February 28, 2025

As divorce rates go higher and higher each year, many might ask why marriage is still around. Couples decide on a whim that they want to marry their significant other, without taking into account how the...

Unseen toll: Losing sleep, students sacrifice their mental health for academic achievement. Students often feel pressure to live up to certain expectations.

School should be collaborative, not competitive

Christopher Denkovich, Editor-in-Chief February 28, 2025

As soon as an exam or an essay is graded and returned by a teacher, the first words out of a students’ mouths are often, “What did you get?” This seemingly harmless question quickly turns into a...

Stopping the spread: In the front of her classroom, Mrs. Maria Porter has a sanitizing station for students. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Porter wiped down the desks in her room daily to stop the spread.

Going viral

Audrey Mooney, Features Editor February 28, 2025

Each year, students experience a variety of illnesses, whether they be allergies or contagious fevers. To stop the spread of contagious bacterial infections and viruses, it is necessary for sick students...

All alone: When couples celebrating Valentine's Day post their dates online, it can make people who have no one to share it with feel lonely or sad.

Valentine’s Day is a massacre

Brodie Falk, Business Manager February 28, 2025

Valentine’s Day is known by many as the holiday of love and compassion, but is it really as good as it seems? Oftentimes, Valentine’s Day is full of romantic dates, gift giving and spending time with...

Addicted: Playing their phones before bed, teenagers are straining their eyes and filing their brain with “brain rot.” Learning to go about a routine without an electronic device at hand proves to be hard for teenagers.

Teenagers addicted to electronic devices

Caden Beringer, Copy Editor January 31, 2025

  As new electronics are being pushed out by companies each year, students fall into the rabbit hole of purchasing yet another distracting device. With each new device comes a multitude of different...

 Many individuals participate in trends revolving around the “Wicked” movie. However upon release people question if the movie is worth the hype around it.

“Wicked” movie faces backlash

Anna Majors, Asst. Features Editor January 31, 2025

As 2024 came to a close, the movie “Wicked” left its mark as one of the hit movies of the year. Before the movie came out, it was heavily marketed to reach people of all ages and demographics. The...

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