Voices
The student voices of Buffalo High School, offering diverse opinions on the issues and entertainment that impact the community.
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“I don’t understand why Sign Language is accepted as a second language but Braille isn’t,” said Sophomore Alexis Garcia. Garcia has been pushing for the opportunity to take Braille as his second language for about two years. However, he hasn’t been able to make progress. Most blind or visually impaired kids around the state of Minnesota have to get it approved by their school district to study Braille as their second language, but some high schools have the choice for…
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Do students really learn from doing homework? Homework is a daily fact of life for students at BHS, but research has cast doubts on its benefits. Many American elementary schools have banned homework, and some high schools in France and Germany have placed moratoriums on homework. In an interview with the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in October, Head teacher at Elsa-Brandstrom in Germany, Brigitte Fontein explained that generally “no child would be having their free time dominated…
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Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to get together with friends and family. There are a lot of ways to spend the holiday. Different family traditions show different unique ways to celebrate the special day in fall. Thanksgiving isn’t only a day to prepare and eat food, the real meaning of Thanksgiving is to spend time with family and share your thanks and thoughts from the past year with each other. Some families share their highs…
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Any time and any where a fight breaks out, on Facebook. Though they are pointless and flat out dumb, everyone has fought at least once on Facebook. How many times do people fight on Face book? Senior Riley Smithson says, “I have have a fight on Facebook at least two or three times a week.” People fight over the most random things when on Facebook. There are topics ranging from politics or religions to relationships,…
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“Act of being diverse, different, unlike the rest.” Buffalo High School will and has a lot of names, but one it can’t say it is, is actually being diverse. The staff might say we are, but Buffalo really isn’t. Buffalo High School has 1,756 students attending, only 7.89% are a different ethnic background besides white. 156 students are of different ethnic background beside white. 51 out of 156 are of Hispanic Background, 31 of Asian background, 23…
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With the end of a presidential term in the near future it is yet again time to elect another. Everyone will pretend to know the issues and we will vow that “This time it will be different,” and everything wrong in our country will be fixed as long as our candidate gets elected. The problem is we don’t know everything that’s the wrong and many of us don’t know much beyond our personal beliefs to…
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Buffalo High School gets out earlier than any neighboring high school — at least thirty minutes earlier than Monticello, Delano, St. Michael-Alberville, or Rockford. However, it’s also the earliest starting school in the area. Out of 50 students surveyed, 33 said they would like school to start later. The most common reason for this was that waking up early is difficult. The other 17 students said that they would like to have school start at…
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There are a lot of great reasons to become a Para — you get to help kids with their people skills such as helping kids with reading and vocabulary. “What I love about being a Para is the feeling that I get when the student I am working with accomplishes that goal,” said Lisa Lindman. “It can take the student one month to three months to finish that goal and to see how happy they…
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The voices of 1800 students in the halls all blend together. Hidden within the student body are voices that stand out. If you listen closely you will hear some of the most interesting, high, low, and beautiful voices. Not a lot of people focus their attention on the voice of a person, because what they see first is what registers in their mind as the first thing. “When I talk to someone the first thing…
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$50 for a parking pass each semester of the year, that totals up to $100 per year, just for one person to park at school. Every year, about 450 students park at the school, which adds up to about $45,000 every year. But where does all that money go? All of the money goes to the school district’s main account, General Fund. And what do people think of paying for parking passes? Senior Montanna Bohall says, “I…
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