Chronicle Reporter

TCA students have a great advantage ahead of them this year. All freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors will be able to have a great learning experience through field trips throughout the course of the year.

This year’s field trips are full of hands- on activities and two career field trips for students who are interested in becoming teachers. The Lull Special Education Center (a center that handles severely disabled handicapped students), is one of the places that would be provided for students who are interesting in a teaching career. Before going to the the center, students would first have to create a lesson to later on teach at the center.

TCA also provides students interested in science and enjoy hands- on experiments to have the opportunity to visit the Sepulveda Wildlife Basin, where they will be taught an experiment which will later be taught by them.

“TCA is is a completely inclusive small learning committee,” agreed Kelly Bender, lead teacher of TCA. “The purpose of these field trips and experiences is to help our students see that they can make a difference in their own lives and in the world around them, which goes along the TCA motto: ‘creating a more humane society through lifelong teaching and advocacy.’”

Transportation and field trips are available to TCA students thanks to the support of Linked Learning and Hollywood High School, who have been supporting TCA since past years.

As students keep advancing into the next grade level, they are a step closer to college. For this purpose, Hollywood High provides TCA students with a learning experience at colleges.

Sophomores this year will be visiting Cal State Northridge and Pierce college to inform themselves more about college and start preparing for it. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors get one field trip per year, which only applies to field trips to colleges.

For this reason, each grade level will visit two colleges in one day- one community college and one four- year college. These field trips will help students understand how to transfer from a community college to a four year university.

“We play a very exciting brand of volleyball! Three powerful hitters are ready to attack and put the ball away for kills on every single play,” said varsity coach Scott LeWinter.

  Varsity is competing for the Central League Championship as well as the Los Angeles City Championship. The deciding game will be against Belmont, and a win will mean they will be first in League Championship.

“We are off to a good start and we are getting better each week. The sky’s the limit for our varsity team this year,” said LeWinter.

Think of it from a criminal’s perspective for a moment. If you are going to break the law by assaulting, violating, robbing, or straight up murdering someone, then getting a gun illegally to insure success is peanuts in comparison. It would be encouraging actually to know that it is much harder to attain guns legally because the number of people who are actual threats to you, the people who shoot back, diminishes and so does the chance of being stopped or caught in time before the police arrive.

Crazy/irresponsible people are always going to exist and as long as they do, people can be hurt by them. Guns are tools, they do not operate on their own without human instruction. Even if they were taken away from the psychos, the psychos would just use something else as their means of slaughtering and disturbing the innocent.

Are kitchen knives, baseball bats, cars, and people with large hands going to require extensive legalization just because it is possible to harm someone with them? We as a country need to start pulling ourselves out of this state of irrational fear of inanimate objects and start directing our energy and focus at resolving the source of these problems, the disturbed killers themselves and the politicians who exploit our fears of them.

Lady Sheiks have completed their volleyball season with Varsity’s final record standing at 12-1, while Junior Varsity’s record is 5-8. The final game on Oct. 24th was against Belmont, and Varsity’s win has placed them first in the league.