Students able to pick up a purchased yearbook June 16 through drive-through format on campus
June 17, 2020
More than two weeks after the end of the 2019-2020 school year, students who ordered a Helios yearbook were able to pick one up Tuesday during a drive-through pickup process in the parking lot outside the Performing Arts Center {PAC]. The 312-page annual, themed "Keep Talking We're Listening," als...
Staff editorial: FJUHSD should reopen classes in fall to all students since studies show minors are less likely to contract coronavirus
June 4, 2020
A May 20 online article from the Los Angeles Times describes the first day of the return of school for students at Gyeongbuk Girls’ High School in Daegu, South Korea, the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus crisis. Titled, “‘Kids will be kids’: Furtive hugs, complex logistics on South Kore...
May 29: Being quarantined at home because of coronavirus crisis can’t stop these students from pursuing Victorian-era hobbies
May 30, 2020
LIVING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS This is part of a series of columns from The Accolade staff about their various experiences during the school closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to submit some of your experiences, please email us at [email protected] Since Califor...
May 26: Count on me to tell you how many school days have passed since the start of the 2019-2020 school year
May 29, 2020
LIVING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS This is part of a series of columns from The Accolade staff about their various experiences during the school closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to submit some of your experiences, please email us at [email protected] “Neandertha...
Summer school Monday, June 1, to continue with distance learning; health for incoming freshmen not being offered because of school closure
May 28, 2020
With summer school scheduled to begin Monday, June 1, incoming freshmen will be the only group prohibited from enrolling in health, while distance learning will continue for both sessions, school officials said. “With the [COVID-19] pandemic, we are limiting summer school [course] options this year,”...
Dancin’ to ‘90s music? Glow in the Dark Neon Lights in the gym? Student-suggested May stag dance themes could have been either one had the COVID-19 pandemic not have gotten in the way
Alexandria Kim
May 26, 2020
“Neon Lights.” “The ‘90s.” “Blacklight.” These are just a few of the 73 student stag theme submissions that the ASB received before school closure in mid-March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Those who turned them in, however, will never know what the last stag dance the...
Korean Culture Night would have commemorated its 10th year anniversary had it not gotten axed because of COVID-19-related school closure
May 25, 2020
It was supposed to be an event to commemorate the 10th year of performances to show what the Korean culture -- past and present -- is all about. Korean 1 and 2 teacher and Korean Culture Club [KCC] adviser Esther Lee had also invited such special guests as Fullerton Joint Union High School District supe...
Here’s what the Spanish Flu from more than a century ago can teach us about how to respond to COVID-19 pandemic
May 25, 2020
Long lines at grocery stores. Schools no longer open for classroom instruction. Hospital beds full of dying patients. Doesn’t all of this sound like the aftermath of the novel coronavirus outbreak? But these events have happened before -- more than a century ago. In 1918, a virus sprea...
COVID-19 pandemic shuts down student exchange program; one of the 12 Class of 2020 valedictorian’s $1,850 summer trip to Germany canceled
May 24, 2020
Senior Samuel Kho had a month of his summer plans all set since November, which was when he first applied and paid $1,850 to participate in a summer German exchange program. After graduation on May 28, Kho was scheduled in June to take a flight to Germany and to live in Stuttgart, Baden Württembe...
Coronavirus crisis forces delay in yearbook printing; students who paid for one will have to wait until after June 6 when the school year has ended to pick it up
May 24, 2020
This story was updated May 24 at 12:30 p.m. to show that yearbook distribution was reportedly delayed for the Class of 1963, four years after the school opened in 1959. This story was updated again May 25 at 4:30 p.m. with quotes about what happened in 1963. For the first time since 1963 in the Helios program's history...
With live-graduation ceremony postponed until August, Class of 2020 will have YouTube virtual one instead May 28
May 24, 2020
In hopes of providing the Class of 2020 with a proper send off, school officials will host a virtual graduation ceremony for seniors and their family on YouTube May 28. “As with everything we do, our virtual graduation will be the best it can possibly be,” principal Allen Whitten said. A lin...
May 23: How I’ll spend my Sweet 16 and summer vacation in quarantine
May 24, 2020
LIVING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS This is part of a series of columns from The Accolade staff about their various experiences during the school closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to submit some of your experiences, please email us at [email protected] The United ...
