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The Mentor

The Mentor

The student news site of Manhattan High School

The Mentor

The Paradoxical question of Smartphones in School

The Paradoxical question of Smartphones in School

Advith Natarajan, Managing Editor March 28, 2024

With the rise of the digital age, communication has become hyper-efficient. Through text messages, WhatsApp, Messenger or any of the thousands of messaging platforms, the world is connected in a way we...

Why discipline has gone too far

Why discipline has gone too far

Katelyn Jensen, Staff Writer December 13, 2021

It’s perfectly ok to want your kid to be safe, but to keep them from experiencing what it is like to be a teenager and not letting them make mistakes and learn from them as a teenager is wrong. Sometimes...

Pay more attention to world around you, not phones

Pay more attention to world around you, not phones

Elizabeth Stokes, Video Production September 20, 2021

Facebook has been around since 2004. iPhones have been around since 2007, and since then has come Instagram, TikTok, Reddit etc. Anyone born after 2010 will never understand life without smartphones.  The...

Cell phone use in the classroom

Joshua Flickenger, Photo Editor December 11, 2019

Cell phone use in the classroom has increased over the years, along with other new pieces of technology.  Cell phones are bad for the learning environment when they are not used in an educational...

Phones missing from girls locker room

Madison Ritz, Blue M Student Life Editor October 28, 2019

Manhattan High School is about three months into this school year and already four phones have already been stolen from the South Gym girls locker room during first hour Physical Education.  According...

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