Phone Caddies

Phones aren’t going away any time soon so students need to learn how to balance their education and phone use and classrooms’ phone caddies aren’t enforcing that lesson.

It’s excessive to have all students put their phones in a caddy since in reality the majority of the class can stay engaged and off their phones; it’s a small handful of kids that ruin it for everyone else. 

Sure, putting phones in a phone caddy eliminates the problem for the moment, but screenagers are just going to indulge when the bell rings. It’s a temporary solution.

We’re nearing adulthood, so let teenagers decide for themselves and face the consequences of their phone use. 

AP Test Cost Increase 

For students taking AP courses and thus AP tests, they’re going to be out a couple extra bucks this year. 

The cost of AP tests, which is already expensive, has been raised again. 

First students have to pay to take a test and now the price is getting steeper. It’s a nightmare come true.

Part of students’ decision to even take the AP test revolves around paying for it. Some kids struggle to come up with the money, yet it’s going to be upped. 

Especially in today’s economy students are going to have this thrown at them? 

Although it’s less expensive than college courses, AP tests are still financial hurdles people have to overcome. 

Temperature Fluctuations

There’s only one place where you can experience all four seasons in a single day: Souderton Area High School.

Understandably, places like the cafeteria are kept cooler than the rest of the school since it hosts a large number of people and therefore body heat. 

But what’s confusing is the random classrooms that feel like Antarctica and send students into hibernation while others have kids melting into puddles. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. 

When students wear shorts and T-shirts in the summer, they freeze in school, and when it’s winter and everyone is bundled up, kids are threatened with heat stroke in class.

We need a more temperate climate ASAP.