Rain: the sign of balance, not despair
Shreya Beldona, Executive enterprise editor
October 15, 2020
As soon as I wake up, before I even open my eyes, I can feel it. My room, lacking proper insulation, is colder than normal. When I open my eyes, the sunlight no longer streams into my room through the blinds. Instead, there are dark clouds outside. In that moment, I hope that the dark skies above ...
The long lost art of reading
Sreeja Mudumby, Communications Manager
October 13, 2020
Do you remember the feeling of sitting next to the fireplace, wrapped up in a blanket with a mug of hot cocoa, while the thick, white pages of a book lure you into a fantasy? Yeah, me neither. Ever since I was a child, I’ve always been a bookworm. Magic Tree House? You bet. Harry Potter? Bee...
Mother Nature finds time to shine during COVID-19
Drishti Gupta, Staff Writer
October 9, 2020
As Dallas County now nears 80,000 COVID-19 cases, many Coppell High School students are starting to question whether the virus will ever disappear. The virus has taken the lives of more than a thousand individuals in Dallas County, has imposed drastic restrictions on going out in public and has temporari...
Letter From the Editor: Per angusta ad augusta (with video)
Sally Parampottil, Executive Editor-in-Chief
October 2, 2020
When I first joined The Sidekick staff as a sophomore, the strangest quirk was how other staffers referred to the classroom as D115. Sure, sometimes it was the newsroom or the Sidekick room, but it was mainly called D115. I had never memorized a room number for any of my classes before. As ...
Editorial: Treat COVID-19 as a resource instead of a curse (with video)
Editorial Board
October 2, 2020
What does not kill you makes you stronger. While we should take the time to recognize and grieve what we have lost because of COVID-19, we need to shed some light on the situation so we do not drown in negativity. Living through a pandemic can be mentally and physically draining, and as a result, m...
Coppell Observer: Zoom: where reality is a multi-faceted master of mischief
Akhila Gunturu, CHS9 Editor
September 29, 2020
Coppell Observer is a humorous column about life as a teenager. Please be warned that any and all sass is due to the writers’ similar situation as adolescents (even though we feel so much older). You, the reader, should not take any of these words to heart. Seriously. If this article makes you laugh, l...
The depression epidemic
Camila Villarreal, Executive Editorial Page Editor
September 19, 2020
For six months, America has waited for the disaster of COVID-19 to be over. For six months, the steady rhythm of our daily lives has been warped and tampered with. We have locked our doors, closed our windows, and shifted our lives to an alternative state of existence. It goes without saying that no one was prepa...
Disconnected from modern history
Sally Parampottil, Executive Editor-in-Chief
September 11, 2020
I can’t tell you where I was and what I was doing on Sept. 11, 2001. I wasn’t born until Sept. 2, 2002. Because I never experienced life prior to the attacks, I cannot understand the difference of life before and after beyond what I hear or read. The fear and uncertainty that crippled th...
Black lives, anti-racism matters
Yasemin Ragland, Staff Writer
September 9, 2020
Life as a Black person in America can be inspiring and complicated when we look at our shared history and the future. My paternal great grandmother grew up sharecropping—an exploitative form of labor that occurred after slavery ended. My paternal grandfather did not get full rights until he ...
Opinion: A sign of the times
Sally Parampottil, Executive Editor-in-Chief
August 27, 2020
With each snip of the scissors, another lock of hair fell to the ground. As nearly six inches of black waves were severed, a small pile formed at my feet. It was my first haircut since May of 2019. Time is relative. Though measured in standards like hours and days, each person experiences the passage of t...
Coppell Observer: Survival of the summer readers
Sally Parampottil, Executive Editor-in-Chief
August 25, 2020
Coppell Observer is a humorous column about life as a teenager. Please be warned that any and all sass is due to the writers’ similar situation as adolescents (even though we feel so much older). You, the reader, should not take any of these words to heart. Seriously. If this article makes you laugh, l...
