Jones’s grad at grad values encourage teamwork, inter-grade discussion, and a sense of community - three values fostered by participants of the Illinois Tech bridge building competition. As students plowed through final exams, these participants engaged in a day-long event commemorating careers in civil and structural engineering. “In [engineering] class, students get experience with bridge...

The CTA has been a staple of the Jones experience since the school was founded. With an average daily ridership in the millions, most of Jones’ student population uses it in some way or another to get to school. Since the advent of shelter-in-place in Illinois, though, the system has changed completely, becoming one of the most drastic examples of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact in the city. Rail...

On an average spring day, Jones students from across the city brush shoulders in the hallways of school. Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, however, this close contact is unsafe and unthinkable, and so, students have dispersed to whichever corner of Chicago they call home. With every Jones pupil spending extra time in their neighborhood nowadays, they bear constant witness to how the virus and consequent...

Unknowing of what was to occur in the days to come, Jones students packed into the gym on March 12 ready to watch the annual Student vs Teacher basketball game. With thoughts on coronavirus hanging just lightly in the air, no-one had any idea of the bleak future of Jones sports. The eventual postponement of all school sports and canceling of playoffs was devastating for all student-athletes, cutting...

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In undesputed fashion, the Jones varsity girls basketball defeated Lincoln Park 38-25 in their game on Jan. 9. Jones shut out their opponent through the first six minutes of play and continued to dominate through the rest of the first half, finishing the half leading 21-14.    “I thought we rebounded well and played good defense,” said Jones head coach Nicholas Teich. “Offensively we could...

It’s a paradoxical thought, but the sources of our anxieties are oddly integral to our lifestyles. That’s the enigma of public education, at least from a student’s perspective. Like many kids coping with the outbreak of COVID-19 and associated social restrictions, I, too, have lapsed into the all-too-addictive binge cycle of sleeping, eating, and watching TV. Amidst parents’ returns from...

Plenty of high schools require foreign language classes, and Chicago Public Schools [CPS] has made it mandatory for students to take at least two years of the same language. This requirement is not always beneficial to the student’s learning and academic experience. While learning another language can be a good thing, it should not be necessary for many reasons, and could potentially harm one’s...