School alone can be stressful enough, but imagine trying to keep grades up while also having to spend 40 hours of the week working. This is the issue that many students, mainly seniors and juniors, face. With college approaching and senior events, many students feel...
Port of Los Angeles High School The Anchor
The Anchor is a student news paper for Port of Los Angeles High School. We are located in San Pedro, Ca.
Student editorial board fights censorship at Port of LA High School
After an issue of The Anchor went to press last September, the editors-in-chief and the two advisers of The Anchor received multiple emails from Principal Scotti in response to the issue’s editorial, which encouraged the high school’s administration to provide free...
Heating up the classroom with STEAM
Port of Los Angeles High School (POLAHS) STEAM Team is holding a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) festival on March 9 at the Warner Grand Theater to display the results of the STEAM initiative in POLAH classrooms and promote the use of STEAM to...
Students rally against oil ‘bomb trains’
Port of Los Angeles High School's (POLAHS) Environmental Engineering class gathered alongside concerned community members in San Luis Obispo on Feb. 4 to rally against the expansion of Phillips 66 Rail Spur. The suggested Phillips 66 Project would mean that over 300...
Teacher and student to join Board of Trustees
Student and teacher representatives will be added to the Port of Los Angeles High School Board of Trustees, the board decided on Feb. 3 at its monthly meeting in the MPR. The board voted to raise the number of board members to 9 to 12 trustees, a change from the...
We all SAT down for nothing: Why the SAT is useless for college admissions
According to USA Today, Harvard Graduate School concluded that college admissions should focus both on ethical engagement and intellectual engagement recently its “Turning the Tide” report from their Making Caring Common project. 50 colleges have endorsed this report...
Let’s talk about sex: Charter schools should make condoms available to students
In 2013 Fairview Academy, a charter school in Minneapolis, adopted a condom availability program for its students to promote student health. In partnership with Nu-Vo Condom, the school allows students to request free condoms without parent approval. Along with the...
San Pedro residents protest Donald Trump’s appearance on USS Iowa
On Sept. 15, a day before the second Republican primary debate, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited San Pedro to deliver a 15-minute speech regarding veterans, foreign policy, immigration and other issues aboard the retired World War II ship USS...