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The student news site of Hagerty High School

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The student news site of Hagerty High School

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Freshman Derick Alyahya buys lunch from the cafeteria. With state and federal food guidelines focusing on healthy changes, it is unclear how the new rules will impact school lunches.

The nutrition nightmare

Blueprint Staff
February 18, 2026

The U.S. prides itself for ranking highly in many things: military strength, GDP and education. However, that reputation feels less inspiring when applied to statistics on health. The United States faces...

Students are distracted while a mental health video plays. These videos do not properly address the mental struggles many teens experience. Illustration | Eliana Rivera

Our Take: Mental health should mean more

BluePrint Staff
November 18, 2025

Every year, in a random week in November, English teachers put on the first of many “mental health awareness” videos, the same ones they are required to play each year. Everyone has sat through them—the...

A student scrolls past a serious article to look at entertainment. Society needs to take school shootings and other tragedies more seriously, and news outlets need to report on them more responsibly. Photo by Yuhan Liu

Our Take: Stop scrolling

Blueprint Staff
September 30, 2025

Be honest: When you see a headline in the news about a school shooting, do you keep scrolling? Even if you open it, do you stop reading after the first few lines? Location, date, number dead. Do you...

While cheating is an often light topic among students, it has real implications for  students' moral future and academic success.

The cheating game

Blueprint Staff
May 6, 2025

In movies, cheating involves elaborate hand signals, notes stuffed in shoes and answers scribbled in the crook of a forearm. In reality, cheating is as simple as hitting Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.  With the...

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