Story by Natalia Merck, Messenger Staff Writer
• May 10, 2023
Every student thinks differently of their senior year and has had extremely different experiences.
For some, their senior year has lived up to their expectations, for others not so much. “... I think...
One of Placer High School's greatest strengths is the amazing staff. Specifically, Tim Johnson, otherwise known as Red is one of Placer’s fine arts teachers.
Red’s interest in Art came at an early...
Story by Lydia La Barbera, Messenger Staff Writer
• February 17, 2023
Bathrooms on Placer High School campus are being mistreated by students.
The bathrooms on the PHS campus have been used as more of a place to skip class - or hang out - than being used for...
Story by Lydia La Barbera, Messenger Staff Writer
• February 3, 2023
Intervention at Placer High School is useful to some, but other students and staff despise the idea.
Many of the faculty members at Placer believe that intervention is imperative for students...
Story by Ava Conn, Features Editor
• April 22, 2022
With Covid affecting every possible aspect of students' lives, the sophomore graduating class of 2024 was the first class to start their high school years in full swing of distance learning. Even...
Story by Eliana Merck, Editor in Chief
• March 28, 2022
In fifteen U.S. states, it has been made or considered to be made illegal to provide transgender youth with gender-affirming surgeries and other treatments, even with parental consent.
For example,...
Story by Eliana Merck, Editor in Chief
• March 17, 2022
What is queer? By Google’s definition, it simply means “homosexual”. But what does it actually mean? From my experience, the word queer is used as an umbrella term for people who don’t identify...
Story by Addie Buckingham, Messenger Staff Writer
• February 10, 2022
Every year, Black History Month is celebrated in the month of February. It is used to commemorate African-American history and achievements, and to recognize their impact on the U.S. itself and it's history....
Story by Allyson Mickel, Editor-in-Chief
• January 28, 2022
Every day at Placer, students get released for open campus lunch. Students go around downtown and old town Auburn looking for a local business to eat lunch and relax. Teenagers in this time and age have...
Covid-19 has drastically changed physical education in schools. With physical education online teachers can’t monitor their students like they could during in person school.
Covid has caused schools...
As may not be known by some students and parents, Jason Long is the new teacher for Placer’s Photography class. Photography could be an interesting new learning experience for many students at Placer....
Since September is already beyond its halfway point at the time of writing this column, I would like to articulate some of the reasons I am super stoked to FALL into the best time of the year.
First...
