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Most students on campus relate to being broke from time to time.

“I was really broke. I was like, dang, I’m tired of being broke. I should make some money and I was like, hey, I can bake. Why not just start selling cookies?” Senior Jaylin SmithVan said

Throughout the year, inspiration strikes some students. Inspiration to create their own businesses and make some money on the side. This small group of students have taken the initiative to grow their ideas into real, functioning businesses, and becoming the Dontrepreneurs. Students such as Jaylin Smith-Van, a Senior at Arroyo, who’s been running his business selling cookies since the start of the year has his take on running a self own business.

Smith runs a baking business from his Instagram account “@ jylnsmthvansbakedgoods”, mostly by selling his cookies. He had started this business to make some extra money on the side, but ended up doing this almost full time. For most students, the only way to make money is to get a job working at boring retail stores or fast food restaurants. However, for a small group of students like Smith-Van, they have decided to go a different route, taking their passions and skills and monetizing them, and creating their own small businesses. Over the past year or so, a variety of juniors and seniors around the campus have been selling and making profit off their passions.

Junior Dalene Chen started her clothing brand, Juiced Clothing Co. from her passion to create a new line of cool and trendy clothes that emits a more positive message to the world, rather than some of the other brands, which she has come to notice put out a more negative energy.

“I wanted to create a line of clothes that was cool and positive, rather than what some of the other clothing brands that I saw, which were cool, but had an aura of negativity around them which isn’t what I wanted in my brand. On Urban Dictionary, ‘Juiced’ means to be excited about something or to be hyped about something or pumped about something, which is the type of vibe that I want to bring into the clothing industry.” Chen said.

Starting a business can be a scary endeavor. Many students may not start their business because they are afraid to take their first step. Chen offers her advice from starting her first big business.

“I thought of this idea like two years ago but I didn’t do anything about it because like why would I do something about it and I feel like a lot of people have ideas that like you have this really big crazy idea but you never actually act on it because there could be a million different reasons why. I think one of the reasons is the fear of failure and what it looks like to other people.

So I would say just try things even though you don’t know how things are going to end up. Don’t be afraid to fail at things and don’t be afraid of how dumb you look doing it.” Chen said.

When starting a business for the first time you aren’t going to do anything at the start. Senior Sophia DeLa Cruz runs a popular jewelry business off her Instagram account @paperk1ss with over 6,000 followers. In the beginning she didn’t know how to run certain aspects of her business but later on has learned since.

“It was really confusing at first because I didn’t know how to price the jewelry. I didn’t know if

These lessons in running business are something that comes with time and experience. Learning how to build those skills is something that teacher Christian Charlton teaches in her marketing economics and entrepreneurship classes.

“The first word that comes to me is enterprising and that is a really valuable skill in life no matter what you do no matter if they’re business ends up being super successful and it ends up being their career or all of the stuff that they’re learning while running that enterprise and being innovative and taking it into their career and work space.” Charlton said.

As hardworking as these entrepreneurs are, the fact remains that they are still students that have to balance their school time with their business time as well, a challenge that these students have to constantly deal with. Even with this big of a following, she still has to play a balancing game between her business and school.

“Since I have open customs, a lot of times people would be like: ‘Hey, can you make this bracelet for me?’ I would be like: ‘Ya, sure.’ knowing that I still have two tests tomorrow and my assignments and college apps. So, I think me trying to do that just drains me mentally more. I’m trying to work on saying no. It’s gonna help my business in the long run to keep me in check mentally.” DeLa Cruz said.

Even with all this stress that students feel with their businesses it’s not all doom and gloom. Because these students created their businesses around their passions they still find enjoyment within their work.

“It is fun having my own business there’s ups and downs but honestly I’m just really glad I started it so I can keep myself busy and have a positive outlet cause sometimes I’m frustrated and I’m like baking is my outlet, baking makes me feel better it’s my comfort. And I’m good at it. I can look forward to it and I’m good at doing that so it’s easier for me.” Smith-Van said.

I should price it based on what other people price their jewelry as because I would be like oh this bracelet is 10 dollars, but I know that I spent 4 hours making it and if I count that, I’m not making that much so I asked other jewelry creators as well and the main thing that I learned from them is that you decide what your worth and what your creation is worth so it doesn’t matter if you price it like 15 dollars or whatever. Just make sure that it’s your worth. It’s up to the person and up to you especially because you made it, don’t let other people tell you how you should run your business.” DeLa Cruz said.

Students here at Arroyo, use their independence and manage to produce ingenious ideas and goals to have their own independent source of income. Though still in school, these creative minds manage to confront the challenges that are placed to balance their business life and school life. However not all students want to start a full time business. Some just want a small source of income on the side. Chen has more advice for running these small side gigs..

“I’d say, just think about what you’re good at and what makes you different from the rest. Then you gotta figure out a way to monetize it. Just think about what you’re good at and what makes you different from the rest. Then you gotta figure out a way to monetize it. Literally just by going outside and taking that first step, opportunities will come to you. Where most people fail is when they don’t even start to try.”

Match the pictures and quotes to the teacher!

The Teachers

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On their 1st year as a teacher A B C

“My very first year, I didn’t teach Social Studies. I was hired to substitute in a Spanish class, so I taught Spanish for a little bit more than one semester.”

“I had great groups of students that year and had a cool room (B-8) throughout the whole day and prep. The school really took care of me as a new teacher.”

“One of the AP’s quit and they [The Principal] asked me if I would be an AP.”

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Write the combination you think combines the quote and image for each teacher (ex 1C or 2B)

History Teacher Kevin Beal

Physics Teacher Jeff Jorgensen

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Jodi Soares

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By Wynne Bendell

On December 20, 2022, The Washington Post published, “Who is Andrew Tate, ‘king of masculinity,’ accused of trafficking?” On January 8, 2023 the Los Angleles Times published an Op-Ed titled, “Why misogynists like Andrew Tate are going mainstream.” Just two weeks ago on Febuary 19, 2023 the New York Times published, “ ‘Brainwashing a Generation’: British Schools Combat Andrew Tate’s Views.”Andrew Tate and the discourse around young men and masculinity on social media has quickly become a major topic of discussion nationally and here at AHS.

The age of social media has given many groups an outlet to express their political and social beliefs for an audience. One of these groups, primarily composed of cisgendered men, have been heavily criticized for spreading misogynistic, racist, and homophobic rhetoric for an impressionable audience of young boys.

One example being Andrew Tate, who, before being banned on many social media sites, had over 700,000 subscribers on YouTube and six million followers on Instagram. Despite Tate being recently arrested for charges of rape and human trafficing, his content continues to be spread online, along with his harmful beliefs. This subsect of social media is often referred to as the “Alt-Right pipeline” and has been able to gain support from millions of people online.

Junior Sam Alhandarish has come in contact with this content online and has seen how it influences other young men on social media.

“For instance, Andrew Tate’s [podcast], what he does in his interviews and people say he degrades women in ways. People on TikTok