Written by CATS Students for CATS Students
Los Angeles is a beautiful and vibrant city that is thriving with life and culture no matter where you look, and no where are that life and culture more apparent than here in South Los Angeles. Looking for a place to eat or relax or have fun? Students in Ms. Martinez’s 9th grade English class share their expertise and give the lowdown on their favorite places.
By Kevin B. Jhordin Chino is a student at Diego Rivera Learning Complex, a part of the graduating class of 2021. He is 18 years old and he is most known for his outgoing and nice personality. He is an interesting person of many different kinds of hobbies, all starting from a young age. “I feel like I was always angry and distant as a child,” he says. “I liked boxing and a lot of things that had to do with the military. My living situation, I used to live in a pretty stable home with
By Jose B. Ms. Fiero is a teacher at Diego Rivera and she teaches chemistry, intro art and forensic science. When she was younger, she was a bit of a rebel and was born in a religiously strict household in the middle of nowhere Utah. She grew up on a farm. Her family was on the poor side. She would run around with her 12 older brothers seeing what they could get into. She loved riding horses, cooking, art, soccer, baseball and four wheelers. She always wanted to be someone in her life. Growing up with
As the school year comes to an end, CATS students reflect on a full year of distance learning and what they hope to see from our return to campus in the fall.
By Jesse L. Schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will finally began reopening the week of April 12 after closing for about a year due to the pandemic. CATS welcomed back students on Tuesday, April 27. 148 CATS students are coming back. The United Teachers Los Angeles members had agreed on a hybrid teaching system for a safer experience. They agreed to 3 essential terms, the school staff will have access to vaccinations, students will only continue to return as long as the Los Angeles County remains at a lower count of COVID 19,
It was maybe the unluckiest of all Friday the 13s. On March 13, 2020, LAUSD announced that school campuses would shut down and learning would move online for two weeks to help stop the spread of COVID-19. It was longer than two weeks. One year later, students discuss their experiences during the pandemic and their concerns about a nearing return to campus.
I interviewed a current Senior at CATS. She plans to graduate and continue her education in college. She plans to go to the medical field and become a surgeon. Her studies are very important to her and in her free time, she likes to read different varieties of books or play video games.
Lesly Gomez is a current Freshman attending Cal State Dominguez Hills during the pandemic. She goes to school while working and taking care of her family so she is someone who would have been affected drastically due to the circumstances. I asked her five questions about her experiences learning online:
Ms. Tello has the duty to make sure each student is attending their classes and isn’t truant. She knows with distant learning, there has been significant change with student attendance for online classes. Here are five questions that I asked her.
CATS students discuss two questions about the presidential election: (1) Is the outcome of this election important to you? Why or why not? (2) Most media outlets are predicting that, at this moment, Joe Biden will win the presidency. What are your thoughts, comments, reactions, or questions on this?