Newspaper Appreciation

Volume 4: January / February Comments (1)

By Wendy Muro & Monica Plascencia

Students and teachers were given a survey on Friday, January 11, 2008. Based on this survey we learned that more than half of our school doesn’t know we have a newspaper website called The Catalyst.

All twelve LPS teachers took the survey. Only 58% have showed their students our newspaper website. A startling 42% admitted to us that they haven’t showed their students our newspaper website because they don’t have computer access.

There are 240 students in LPS, but only 121 (about 50%) students took the survey. Of those surveyed, 21% of them knew about our website and checked it out. A whopping 79% of the students didn’t even know we had a newspaper website.

If we work so hard to put this out for our school, then we should receive more appreciation. We feel that all the hard work we do is a waste of our time since nobody appreciates it. We don’t know the exact reason why most of our students haven’t seen our newspaper website. It may be that the teachers haven’t really showed it to them or that the students didn’t pay attention when their teacher showed it. We will never know; we just hope that we will get more school appreciation.

Many teachers said that they didn’t have computer access, but we believe that if they really appreciated our work they would find a way to show it. Devin, who is our Journalism teacher, offered to make copies of our articles to pass out during advisory. For those who did check our newspaper website, we want to thank you, and we will use your ideas in the future.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED ON VISITING OUR WEBSTIE YOU MAY GO TO WWW.CATALYST-LPS.COM/CATALYST. WE HOPE THAT YOU CAN TAKE SOMETIME TO CHECK IT OUT.

admin @ March 10, 2008