Bearing News

Fairytale fashion: best of homecoming spirit week

Allison Kim • October 26, 2021

RBHS held its annual homecoming spirit week Oct. 17-22, with lunchtime games, hallway decorations and dress-up days taking place leading up to the homecoming dance on Saturday, Oct. 23. Following this year’s “Enchanted” theme, student council (StuCo) set a different spirit theme for each day of the week.

Missing cues of the digital world

Nora Crutcher-McGowan • January 2, 2021

Laura Kessel, a speech-language pathologist at RBHS, described the subtle, missing cues and how their absence impacts social interactions during video conferencing meetings.

Creative coping: students, teachers use music, art, movement to relax during COVID-19 pandemic

Audrey Novinger • May 3, 2020

From scrapbooking to practicing an instrument to going on a walk, students and teachers find ways to be creative during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Administration enforces bell release policy

Multiple Authors • October 14, 2019

RBHS’s principal and the assistant principals are being firmer about not allowing teachers to release students before the bell. In past years, some staff members, as well as the high schoolers themselves, with permission from their teacher, could slide out of the classroom minutes before the final bell without repercussions. Now, however, this leniency is not quite as accepted.

Extra credit policy unclear at RBHS

Emily Oba • February 17, 2018

Students and staff discuss extra credit policy and implementation at RBHS.

Courtwarming theme creates tension among school, community members

Nikol Slatinska • February 8, 2017

Students disagree about whether or not the 2017 courtwarming theme is appropriate.