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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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The student-run news site of Lawrence Free State High School

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A second semester schedule is reduced to four classes. Digital illustration by Allison McCall.

FEATURE: Beat the Bell

Dylan Tenbrink, Reporter • February 9, 2026

Starting the second semester each year, seniors are allowed to have a “reduced schedule”, or a schedule with five classes or less, as these students already have enough credit for graduation. Senior...

Working on a project, sophomore Skyler Hansen examines one of the walls. Hansen explained that Geometry and Construction is usually divided up between two periods. “You do an hour of either geometry or construction, depending on what the teachers want to do at the beginning. Then the next hour, you do whatever you didn’t do in the first hour,” Hansen said. “In geometry, you’ll learn a specific set of [information], and in construction, you use that after you learn the geometry.”

FEATURE: Two Birds with One Stone

Arianna Waller, Reporter • September 6, 2024

Imagine a class where math crosses with real world situations, not only solving for X, but creating it too. Requested by woodworking teacher Amanda Torbett and backed by math teacher Laura O’Neil, a...

The Art of Aversion — Blow-off Classes

Evan Frook, Reporter • February 2, 2014

According to a sample group, two thirds of Free State students recognize the existence of blow-off classes. In an anonymous student survey, 66 percent said Physical Education or art classes were the easiest...

How to Survive High School 101

emma machell • May 26, 2011

Every student has been there; new school, new teachers, new everything.  Life at high school would have been so much better if there had just been a guide to help, a Virgil to teenage Dante if you get...

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