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SCHS Now

The student news source of St. Charles High School

SCHS Now

The student news source of St. Charles High School

SCHS Now

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Editorial: The Rise of Hatred

by Lana Usery and Michael Lewis October 24, 2025

Racism has been an issue in the United States since its creation, from slavery, to Jim Crow laws and now in 2025. This country was built on the labor and oppression of people of color and has never really...

Review: Good Boy

Review: Good Boy

by Elyse Boesch, Staff Writer October 23, 2025

Ben Leonberg's film “Good Boy” tugs at the heartstrings of viewers in all different aspects. From the acting, to the background music, setting, and even the camera angles, this movie pulls the audience...

Homecoming Vandalism

Editorial: When Tradition Crosses the Line

by Addie Blair and Vinny Howard October 15, 2025

Homecoming week isn’t a stranger to harmless pranks, things like TPing being a time honored tradition in most schools including ours. However, students this year took things too far. Cars and houses...

Review: Sinners

Review: Sinners

by Lana Usery, Co Editor-in-Chief May 19, 2025

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a cinematic masterpiece that defies what it means to be a horror movie. Sinners is set in 1932 Mississippi, that's all just a front. The movie setting quickly transforms into...

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The Last of Us Season 2

by Maria Linhoff, News Editor and Photo Editor May 9, 2025

Season two of The Last of Us was released on April 13. This show was originally released in January 2023 and is based off of a video game. The first season of the show is based on the first The Last of...

Irish and American students in Scoil Mhuire

The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side

by Maria Linhoff, News Editor and Photo Editor April 4, 2025

Over this past spring break 9 fellow students and I participated in the Sister Cities Irish Exchange. We left for Ireland on March 19 and returned on March 31. We arrived in the Dublin airport on Thursday,...

Safe at School

Safe at School

by Emily Klug, Copy Editor March 12, 2025

The past two years SCHS has started implementing 4E training to help our students control their reactions and show them what to do in the case of a school intruder. Schsnow.com sent out an anonymous survey...

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Opinion: My Favorite Films of the Year

by Lana Usery, Co Editor-in-Chief February 27, 2025

  A Complete Unknown Timothee Chalamet’s performance as Bob Dylan is Oscar worthy. He completely transformed and embodied Bob Dylan. Everything from the hair, to the costumes to the...

Who Will Take Home the Gramophone?

Who Will Take Home the Gramophone?

by Maria Linhoff, News Editor and Photo Editor February 21, 2025

The 2025 Grammy Awards occurred on Feb. 2 and aired for three and a half hours. This year, the Grammys started to make some changes. They significantly increased the amount of voters for the Grammys and...

Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017.  (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

Commentary: 45-47

by Lana Usery, Co Editor-in-Chief November 19, 2024

Early on Nov. 6, former president Donald J. Trump won the presidential election, anticipated to be extremely close but didn’t seem to go that way. An astounding win from Trump by 86 electoral votes,...

The sign outside of St. Charles High, adorned with a progress pride flag and nonbinary pride flag.

Commentary: Schools are Not Doing Enough to Support Transgender Students

by Virgil Eaton, Opinion Editor November 19, 2024

St. Charles High is, in general, a very accepting place. Both girls and boys can participate in sports, clubs, and other community activities. Teachers, staff and students of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds...

Opinion: The Policies at School are not Working

Opinion: The Policies at School are not Working

by Piper Ruebling, Editor in Chief May 20, 2024

An overwhelming majority of students at SCHS disliked the choice to close down 13 of the 16 bathrooms at the end of first semester. Students were restricted to the upper and lower commons bathroom, as...

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