Hardening measures won’t increase safety, waste money

The Rock and Bearing News Staff • September 27, 2019

In the last five years, there have been 25 shootings at a U.S. high school that resulted in at least one fatality. RBHS’s hardening policy, which mainly includes converting to a single entrance with...

Lunch31: The Sonic Block.

Jack Speake • February 27, 2019

Jack, Kai, and Isaac travel to Sonic and Mad Cow, giving opinions and tips, finally visiting a restaurant that not every rock bridge student has been to.

CPS makes new procedures for lunch accounts with debt

Brandon Kim • December 17, 2018

CPS creates new procedures for accounts with $50 or more in debt

Students open bakeries for Business Principles course

Multiple Authors • December 11, 2018

Dec. 11 and 12, students in Business Principles will open their bakeries from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tragic events trigger lifelong trauma

Katie Whaley • April 18, 2018

Whole body trembling, messaging friends through quick texts and nibbling on Cheez-Its, junior Savannah Schnabel did her best to keep calm. Shocked and filled with buzzing nerves, Schnabel watched a tow vehicle drive away with her car, a 2011 Mitsubishi Endeavor, hooked on the back.

Second amendment drives national discussion

Multiple Authors • April 5, 2018

On April 28, 1996, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle shot and killed 35 people around Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia. On Feb. 14, an armed student shot and killed 17 people in Parkland, Fla, United States. In both the countries, the gun laws following the events were drastically different, drawing controversy over the second amendment in the United States.

on school shootings

Katie Whaley • February 20, 2018

There have been 20 deaths related to school shootings since the beginning of 2018. These casualties have been a result of some of the 18 gun-related incidents that have taken place at schools across the...

Changes required to improve student safety

The Rock and Bearing News Staff • November 3, 2016

Excessive fire drills and other safety practices interrupt students in class. Read the Bearing News staff's opinion on the matter.

Intruder drill improves from last year

Grace Vance • November 1, 2015

With last year’s largely unsuccessful ALICE intruder drill still in the minds of faculty and staff, this year many administrators were quick to address the problems revealed during the previous drill....

RBHS simulates intruder drill to gain experience

Luke Chval • October 30, 2014

After a slew of school attacks led by crazed shooters in the last decade, two years ago CPS decided to change its policy regarding intruders to the ALICE system. ALICE, an acronym for Alert, Lockdown,...