![Cursive kerfuffle](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cursive-header-thing.jpg)
By Brianna I. Alvarado, Design/Layout Editor • May 30, 2024
How schools have shifted away from teaching cursive over the last century.
![NOT SO GOOD FOR THE PLANET A lack of charging infrastructure and the hard-to-recycle lithium batteries can deter customers.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Firefly-EV-SUV-accelerating-down-a-highway-at-night-bright-streaks-of-neon-color-rushing-by-graphi-1200x1200.jpg)
By Delmis Vaquerano, Staff • May 29, 2024
While EVs emit less waste than their gas-powered predecessors, they still offer a host of other problems that have yet to be solved.
![Lost on the map: The state of geography in America](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dhwo32KCcSiN4uCbQaiMPIbc80Le2UqL9MWXdFju-1200x692.png)
The United States is lacking in geography education in comparison to other more developed countries, as mocked by online videos.
![From late April to early June, juniors will be facing a barrage of standardized testing, including the SBAC and i-Ready.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/testing-1200x799.png)
By Baron Kim, Staff • May 8, 2024
Students, especially juniors, face constant mandatory standardized testing from late April through early June.
![Across the country, the student press continue to encounter censorship from the school administrators.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/censored-d.jpg)
By Delmis Vaquerano, Staff • May 1, 2024
By amplifying the voices of student journalists and advocating for their rights, schools and communities can affirm their commitment to the principles of free speech and press freedom.
![Goins gone missing?](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-26-at-2.07.09-PM-e1714169889835.png)
By Olamide Olumide, News/Features Editor • Apr 26, 2024
Our journalism advisor was nowhere to be found. Then, against all odds, he spawned.
![The N-word](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/N-Word-1.png)
By Olamide Olumide, News/Features Editor • Apr 24, 2024
The N-word, a topic of contentious debate, has seen its use spiral upward among non-Black students, effectively devaluing the meaning of the word among the Black community.
![DAZED & CONFUSED The i-Ready has been criticized for adjusting lesson plans for students based on their performance on the diagnostic test. Many never go back on the website to actually take those courses.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ICNztPFPd3trolSRn0x9d4MFqwXc4e529CeibBZr-1200x820.png)
By Baron Kim, Staff • Apr 16, 2024
![CANDIDATE CONUNDRUM With the presidential election coming up in November, new voters are presented with two choices: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. Unfortunately, due tot he issues that both candidates pose, many voters feel dissatisfied with the choice they are going to have to make and wish they had better options instead.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Voting1-copy-1200x675.jpg)
By Mia Ramirez, Staff • Apr 10, 2024
![The nearby Saint Elizabeth Church has put up a sign prohibiting skaters and other solicitors from hanging out around the premises of the church.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5viLXkOiItQjOLeKSebxUHViUZ5Hjt0NLjarG42z.png)
By Delmis Vaquerano, Staff • Apr 3, 2024
![In spite of the severity of the conflict, the Israel-Hamas War has been viewed by social media as just another trend to cycle through. Many are posting inaccurate information in an effort to keep up with the fad.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/4oUVa7THNHhWneFiiT6cjB2La1738qrdCvYyVpvg.jpg)
By Mia Ramirez, Staff • Mar 30, 2024
![Bridget Biddy Mason was an enslaved African-American woman who pledged for her freedom in San Bernadino and received it in 1856. She would later move to Los Angeles and use her wealth to support the local Black community until her death in 1891.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/biddymason3.png)
By Abigail Kim, Staff • Mar 25, 2024
![Donna Hubbard was Van Nuys High Schools first female principal. She joined the faculty as a Spanish teacher in 1920 and worked her way up to becoming girls vice prinicipal in 1924, before becoming principal of the entire school in 1935.](https://vnhsmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_E7822-1200x683.jpg)
By Abigail Kim, Staff • Mar 18, 2024
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