Local barber treats his furry friends with CBD oil
By Kevin Reyes Christopher Columbus High School From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Ronald “Ron” Nahmod is clipping, styling and grooming hair at his Coral Gables barbershop, […]
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Miami’s model schools are the ticket out for low-income kids
By Yasmine Mezawi Miami Lakes Educational Center Growing up as a low-income student, Wilnic Gideon struggled to stay focused in school with no real support at home. […]
Read moreLGBTQ+ students feel excluded in sex education classes
By Kaylee Hilyer McArthur High School Ariel Sabillon wished he had cancer rather than HIV. “When I was diagnosed with HIV, I honestly thought it was the […]
Read moreOnline PE gets mixed reviews from students and fitness experts
By Katya Gutierrez Coral Gables Senior High School Zaira Gonzalez prepared for her first high school PE class in a peculiar way. She left her sneakers and […]
Read moreFIU med school takes on Miami’s many underserved neighborhoods
By Joseph Sturgeon Cooper City High School Hundreds of thousands of working-class Americans cannot afford a hospital visit and about 530,000 families go bankrupt each year because […]
Read moreLow-income kids can beat the odds in the game of life
By Yasmine Mezawi Miami Lakes Educational Center Shaika Surprize is one of six siblings who grew up without a father and spent years in the foster care […]
Read morePot can have disastrous effects on mental health
Lukas Guerra Christopher Columbus High School At age 25, Gabe Howard spent four days in a psychiatric ward. He was diagnosed as bipolar. When released, Howard began […]
Read moreCelebrity endorsements cloud debate over effects of diet fads
By Carson Merlo Saint Thomas Aquinas High School In an Instagram post shared in January 2019, actress and socialite Kim Kardashian uploaded a mirror selfie with a […]
Read moreSouth Florida schools often emphasize abstinence over sex education
By Caroline Wheeler-Hollis Creekside High School Phoenix Alexis-Pierre has gone to public school in Miami-Dade County all his life. He took sex education in fourth grade, middle […]
Read moreWord gap can have lasting impacts on the most needy children
By Abigail TuschmanCooper City High School When a 5-year-old starts screaming and biting during a playroom argument over an action figure, the child often is labeled “troubled” […]
Read moreGifted programs display two sides to the coin
By Daniel Gonzalez III Miami Lakes Educational Center Pinecrest Glades Elementary student Angelina Reyes, 9, remembers losing all her friends when she got into the gifted program. […]
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