One week, five spirit days, 100 mums, one pep rally, one football game, one dance. The week of September 26th through 30th and first day of October Hawks celebrated their 6th annual Homecoming week. “My first spirit week I dressed up as Superman for character day, it was something fun and cool to do,” freshman…Continue Reading Hawks celebrate Homecoming
Honor society hosts first-ever chapter induction by Addison Kuchka Fourteen Hawk Media students were inducted into Quill and Scroll, an international journalism honor society, on Thursday, May 12. These students attended a candle-lighting ceremony where they received pins and were named official members of the honor society. Quill and Scroll is a high school-level organization…Continue Reading 14 Hawk Media journalists accepted into Quill and Scroll
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was placed in a prone position with the knee of former police officer Derek Chauvin on his neck over a counterfeit $20 dollar bill. ”I can’t breathe,” Floyd said. Nine minutes and twenty nine seconds later, George Floyd took his final breath. Now nearly a year later Derek Chauvin…Continue Reading Derek Chauvin Found Guilty of All Three Charges
A Senior Fiesta will be held for the class of 2021 due to the district deciding to not allow prom this year due to concerns over the novel coronavirus. Senior Fiesta will be May 15 from 1-5:00 p.m. in THE NEST. Students will enter through THE NEST’s main doors for an identification check in and…Continue Reading Senior Fiesta to be held instead of traditional Prom
For decades citizens of the United States have been told that every vote matters. The Republican party is pushing to pass bills that would make voting restrictions tighter, specifically House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7 in Texas. These bills would make it more difficult to request and submit mail-in ballots, along with broadening poll…Continue Reading Concerns rise with new voting bills pushed in Texas, other states
Unlike last year, the 2021 STAAR tests will have to be passed as a qualification by the state and federal law needed to graduate. The STAAR test stands for State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, which is the states student testing program. The TEA states that this year test will be done online, in…Continue Reading 2021 STAAR Testing Procedures, On-Campus Policies
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week was declared to be the first week of February in 2006. Four years later in 2010, as more people gathered together to make programs and bring more awareness to dating violence, Congress changed National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week to the whole month of February…Continue Reading National Teen Dating Violence Awareness, Prevention Month
February 5, 2021 View this week’s KHHB video announcement produced by Aiden Aguillon, Evelynn Kuo, Lacie Hernandez, Jason Mendez and Christian Mitchell…Continue Reading KHHB Announcements
During the 2020 AP exams, College Board condensed the traditional three hour long, in-person tests, which included both multiple choice and free response sections, to 45 minute, online, free response exams. This last minute change came as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and was an effort to keep students safe while still allowing them…Continue Reading 2021 AP Exam Changes
For the week beginning January 29, 2021…Continue Reading KHHB Video Announcements