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The Student News Source Of Kennedy High School

Kennedy Torch

The Student News Source Of Kennedy High School

Kennedy Torch

Student fear for their safety as the potential for threats increases.

Prioritizing Protection: Kennedy High School Implements New Safety Precautions

Lucy McCord, Writer November 15, 2024

A trend of increasing incidents of violence across Iowa school districts has concerning implications after the over 1,714 injuries and 1,967 assaults of the 2020-2021 school year alone. Around 8 in 1,000...

New legislation passed to allow districts to decide if staff can open carry a weapon. Teachers are conflicted.

Are We Safe Yet?

Madelyn Gilchrist, Designer June 3, 2024

Seniors Grace Harrelson, Joey Bushman, and James Tolly shouting the class cheer.

Keeping Safe with Kennedy’s Crazy Pep Assemblies

Claire Beaman, Writer May 18, 2018

It’s been Kennedy’s tradition to have pep assemblies vastly different than those of other schools. Students like to go all out with school spirit and competition among the freshmen, sophomores, juniors...

What Kennedy is Doing to Keep Students Safe

What Kennedy is Doing to Keep Students Safe

Mathew WorthingtonBarnes, Writer April 26, 2018

With all the recent school shootings, school districts have been debating on what they should do to keep the students and staff safe. Different schools have done various things to ensure the safety of...

Order forms for the walkout shirts.

Make Your Voices Heard

Jami Martin-Trainor, Writer April 17, 2018

19 years will have passed since the Columbine Shooting on April 20. Since that day, there have been 25 fatal school shootings that have taken away numerous lives. Come April 20, many students of Kennedy...

District facility technician changing the door knobs.

New Locks on School Doors

Josh Sheeley, Writer March 9, 2018

Kennedy High School has taken a few changes in security measures in the last week of February and early March. As many students and teachers have seen, there is a district facility technician going around...

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