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The student news site of Hagerty High School

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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...

Amidst the government's obsession with efficiency and budget cuts, HB 5101 comes into play. If passes, the bill would decrease school's funding by half and hinder Florida's educational system.
Photo by Hannah Jiang.

Dollars and no sense

Blueprint Staff, Staff Reporter
April 11, 2025

$375,000.  That is how much Hagerty stands to lose if HB 5101 is approved.  HB 5101 was proposed by Republican Rep. Jenna Persons-Mulicka, the bill was introduced at Florida’s House on March...

Home football games and pep rallies do not cultivate much participation from students because of lack of on campus periods. This has made the school less spirited overall.

Where’s the spirit?

Blueprint Staff
October 3, 2024

A couple of football seasons ago, students would be lucky to find a spot during kickoff at Sam Momary Stadium. But in just two years, the conditions of home football games are noticeably different, with...

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