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Embracing Faith

Embracing Faith

Noah Clement-Bayard, Reporter March 3, 2025

Amy Feder, an alumna and Hall of Fame member, attended the Clayton School District and began her educational career at Meramec Elementary. "In middle school, the teacher who inspired me most was Ed...

Junior Ema McGee leans against the side of her bright red Foxbody Mustang. She bought it a month after moving to Clayton from Facebook Marketplace with money saved while working at a coffee shop in Ashland. “I’ve always loved Mustangs, especially Fox Body Mustangs. I just love the way that they look and the way they drive. I’ve had an obsession with them. And I knew when I was getting my first car, that I wanted to have one that was older,” McGee said.

The Long Road to a New Home

Dwight Erdmann, Copy Editor February 28, 2025

Junior Ema McGee made the 130-mile move from rural Ashland, Mo., this summer, the third significant move of her life. Born in El Salvador, McGee moved to Columbia as a toddler. She lived there for five...

All illustrations and infographics by JiaLi Deck.

Special Not Separate

Alex Cohen, Caitlin Kuhlmann and Anaïs Ogé May 29, 2024

According to Niche’s 2024 education ranking, the School District of Clayton (SDC) ranks 26th nationally. For many parents, this reputation extends past their offerings for typically developing children. “We...

Accommodations: We Aren’t Doing Enough

Ezri Perrin, Reporter October 6, 2021

The American Education System is a deeply flawed institution that, due to its long-standing use as a tool wielded by industrialists to create workers, does not take into account the health of its students...

Living in 63105, the zip code corresponding to the city of Clayton, brings many financial benefits purely from being in an area of accumulated wealth.

63105: The Gilded Zip Code

Every August, a new class of Sperry-stepping, Patagonia-sporting students strut through the doors of CHS into what will be one of their many experiences with the “Gilded Zip Code.”These students, the majority of whom are the offspring of mid- and upper-level professionals are fortunate enough to be born into the gilded zip code — an area of good neighborhoods, families and economic status. Residents of the gilded zip code believe in hard work and merit, but as their consolidation of wealth grows
Pro Learning: Do it for the Knowledge

Pro Learning: Do it for the Knowledge

Ellie Tomasson, Chief Managing Editor November 29, 2015

Every year, students across America participate in the national frenzy to obtain the proverbial holy grail of our education system: the 4.0 GPA, 36 ACT, and 2400 SAT, but at what cost? As students scramble...

Provided by The Anything is Possible Education Foundation

The Anything is Possible Education Foundation

Sophie Bernstein, Page Editor April 12, 2015

An education opens doors. Charlie Harned, CHS class of 2012, created the Anything is Possible Education Foundation while a student at Knox College.  Now, he helps promote and foster academic achievement...

Photo by Andrew Erblich

Our Education

Ellie Tomasson, Chief Managing Editor March 12, 2015

As I walk down the English hallway at CHS, seeing a myriad of quotes etched into the glass doors, one by Mark Twain sticks in my mind: “I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” This...

Grades Over Knowledge?

Jeffrey Friedman November 1, 2013

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” These words, once spoken by Albert Einstein, would likely be doubted by most present-day American...

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