In popular media, gifted children are often portrayed as know-it-all children who do not know how to socialize. In reality, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) defines gifted students as those who need more challenging scholastic settings …
Spanish Honor Society Food Drive
Spanish Society works to collect food for the less fortunate.…
Students make their college choice
Where to go to college and what to major in is a decision that many West students may have on their mind, and when to finalize that decision may have an important part.
Senior Addie Forton has not finalized her …
Students who live without social media
Story by Kate Boles
Social media is a big part of a lot of people’s daily lives, from work, to entertainment, to just plain boredom. But some people here at West don’t participate in what most people would consider a …
Adopted students describe their relationships with their parents
Story by Tatum Spurck
It’s important for kids to grow up in a loving environment with a parent who supports them, regardless of that parent’s biological relationship to them. Kids all around the World, West students included, are adopted. Adoption …
Senior Picture Locations
Shelby Parscale gives seniors a few ideas to take senior photos…
Meet Your Senior Class Officers
Kate Bolls introduces the senior class officers…
Math Help at LSW
Ally Marriott highlights a variety of tools to help students with math.…
Is school getting progressively harder?
Story by Katie Baker
The National Center for Education Statistics studied high school transcripts from 2009 and found high school seniors were taking an average of 27.2 credits, a jump from the 23.6 credits high schoolers were taking in 1990.…
