On Feb. 14, the day before the historic winter storm sparked power outages across the state, I laid on my back in the snow in my front yard, stared up at the sky and watched the flakes fall.  Supine...

After a semester and a half of doing school from a desk in my parents’ bedroom, I finally made the switch to in-person learning for the last quarter of the school year. It was a good thing my fifth period...

In the fifth grade, I told a girl, awe-struck, that I was jealous of how skinny she was. She turned to me, looked me up and down and said, “Yeah, and you’re… Well, look at you.”  In the sixth...

I was 5 years old when Barack Obama became the 44th president on Jan. 20, 2009. I was more than happy for there to be a Black president because Black Americans have been in this country for over 400 years,...

Junior year. Here we go. My fifth period class is Sidekick, the school newspaper. Am I going to like it? What would I even do on a newspaper? I went into my journalism class having no idea what to do....

Dear future incoming Sidekick staffers,  Hi, I’m the editor-in-chief that got stuck in the school year cursed with COVID-19. Well - COVID, a presidential election, a second impeachment, capitol riots,...

Currently, there are more than 13,000 students enrolled in Coppell ISD. 13,000 stories to tell and one newspaper staff to tell them. As news deserts across the country grow, local journalism is left...

Some movie moments are so powerful they send chills down my spine.  A feathery-haired Luke Skywalker standing on the planet Tatooine, gazing up at two suns setting in the distance, is one of them....

When Coppell ISD announced our in-person graduation would be May 28 at Buddy Echols Field, I was nothing less than elated.  It may not seem as glamorous as the standard University of North Texas Coliseum,...

In a sociology class the summer after my sophomore year, I learned the American Dream was dead.  Not explicitly, not definitively, but through a series of statistics and case studies of individuals...

Blissfully quiet, early morning walks to school while sipping tea. Standing on a chair and updating the section whiteboard in the back of the newsroom. Conversations on sun-drenched afternoons that flow...

I didn’t make my senior overalls over the summer.  I thought if I did, I would be unhappy, because it would be a constant reminder of the fact I wasn’t going to school in person. They would just...