What is the significance of the Gay-Straight Alliance, and how does it aid students?
Clubs at VHS campus range from academic to extracurricular and everything in between. They can give students something...
Early this school year, the improv show was the first live drama production at VHS since before COVID
Over the weekend of Oct. 1 and 2, the VHS “What?” Improv Troupe put on an “awesome” show according...
Ulvang teaches ninth grade English and Yearbook for the first time
Ventura High School lost many teachers in the 2020-21 school year, which mean Ventura has received an influx of new teachers, Lauren...
Preston Biller founded VHS Chess Club
Located in room 108, Preston Biller is a mathematics teacher that currently teaches Math 1 and Math 1 honors. Biller has started a new club on the VHS campus. This...
Senorita Ellberg has brought a new perspective to teaching language and culture at Ventura High School
Who is the new Spanish teacher in room 119? Grace Ellberg has a lot of history in Ventura, after...
A look inside what's been going on with ASB during distance learning.
“Most people think of ASB as poster making and organizing dances. Those are definitely big parts, but overall I would say ASB is...
Students share thoughts about Jaquette’s physics teachings
Ventura High School’s physics teacher, Christopher Jaquette, strongly encourages students to wonder about the subject. Jaquette considers...
A glimpse into the world of Pierre Chamaa
Ventura High is filled with many diverse teachers who are truly the backbone of the campus. With each teacher comes a new story, one of which being Pierre Chamaa’s.
This...
The underfunding of VHS Welding and Fabrication class
Manufacturing is the second largest industry in Ventura County according to Datausa.io. Datausa.io also states nearly 43,000 jobs in the county involve...
Every Wednesday for a zero period from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., a group of working students meet in math teacher Mathew Cherrie’s classroom for a class known as Work Experience. Work Experience is a class...
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![Caroline Dickinson, who is a senior at El Camino, but is in the music program at VHS, was kicked off campus by security because she was still on campus after her class was over. She was told that El Camino students weren’t allowed to stay here during the times they had gap periods. “I was walking to Santa Cruz to get a snack, [. . .] and then I came back on campus and I was kicked off, because I didn’t have an off campus pass.”
Read more on Elise Sisk’s new article, “New security rules on VHS campus have major effects on student life.”
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