by Lauryn Chavez | staff writer As softball season starts only weeks from now the girls are getting ready by setting their goals and preparing for their hardest challenges. Practice has already started earlier last month and they are moving...
by Alexis McCutchan| editor-in-chief With a new Johnson Jaguar coat draped across his back and a walkie talkie on his hip, Gary Comalander walked into his new office, ready to take on the title of high school principal. “It was...
By Lauryn Hughes | staff writer Dozens of racks are set up and clothes are freshly pressed as Johnson’s fashion designers hang them up in preparation for the “Jag Exchange.” This unique experience offered here on campus for the first...
by Lauryn Chavez| staff writer It was a typical trip home after school that taught junior Victoria Franco a lifelong lesson. As more high schoolers get on the road they need to know what to do if they get into...
by Sofia Colignon | staff writer For the third time in a row, the Johnson High School Cheer team took home the trophy after winning the annual University Interscholastic League (UIL) spirit competition on Jan 13. The cheerleaders had been...
Due to the growing amount of students at Johnson High School, there is too many students in classrooms for the small amount of chromebooks that a cart can hold, so NEISD decided to install wifi throughout every school in the district.
April 9 is a date that remains highlighted, circled, and ultimately unavoidable on almost every teenager’s calendar this year - with the Johnson prom, Reagan prom, and the ACT all set for that fateful Saturday.
“I’m going to take the ACT on April 9. I probably will miss prom because I’ll be busy studying to make sure [of] what I’m supposed to be doing for the test,” junior Lillian Bautista said. “That does determine what college I’m going to get into. So it’s very important for me to prioritize it.”
Riley Nelson has a special connection to Johnson HS. She graduated in 2010, completed her undergraduate degree at Kansas State and then joined the Peace Corp. Right now she’s serving in Indonesia as an English teacher. And now, a handful of years later, she’s found a way to give back to her high school campus.
So with a program that perhaps the typical freshman might have described as vague or graphic, what role does the high school take in continuing sex education for students?