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The Blue & Gold

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The Blue & Gold

The official newspaper of Chamblee High School, preserving the past for the future today!

The Blue & Gold

"This piece is based off of historic meat charts used by butchers, but applied onto the theme of human identity. It is a representation of how often people will pick and choose how they perceive and treat an individual based on certain characteristics they display or that people may assume about them (whether those assumptions are true or false), and how that ultimately dehumanizes the individual. Its focus is more on personal identities the world sees it, rather than how personal identity is processed internally." -Elena Vega

Breaking the Binary: Trans and Non-binary Chamblee students

Luiza Douglas, Senior Editor December 16, 2021

This article can also be found in the exclusive December print edition focused on Chamblee’s Identity. Copies of the newspaper are being distributed at lunch Thursday, December 16. Chamblee's student...

Left to right. Front row: Kayla Gibbs, Kaylee Powell, Samantha McLeod Jones. Second Row: DJ Mays, Bryson Fleming, Dante Craft. Photo courtesy of Natalie Brown.

Life Through Black Eyes

Kaylee Powell, Staff Writer December 16, 2021

This article can also be found in the exclusive December print edition focused on Chamblee’s identity. Copies of the newspaper are being distributed at lunch Thursday, December 16. When I was in sixth...

'What if I’m not everything she wanted to be,' reflects my fears of never becoming the person my younger self wanted me to be. I often worry that I won’t fulfill all that she dreamed of, but I like to think that even if I can’t accomplish every dream I wanted, she would still be proud of who I’m becoming." 
-Natalie Brown

Defining Myself as Undefined

Coco Bradford, Editor December 16, 2021

This article can also be found in the exclusive December print edition focused on Chamblee’s Identity. Copies of the newspaper are being distributed at lunch Thursday, December 16. I don’t know...

'Blood and Body" is a piece about trying to fit in with a religion that I don't find myself resonating with and the struggles that come upholding family values and cycles." 
-Millie Gotsch

A Half Identity: Proving I’m Enough

Millie Gotsch, Staff Writer December 16, 2021

This article can also be found in the exclusive December print edition focused on Chamblee's Identity. Copies of the newspaper are being distributed at lunch Thursday, December 16. I grew up in a...

Allison and Veronica, her first student

Coaching: How I Found my Purpose

Allison Lvovich, Staff Writer November 13, 2021

I’ve played tennis competitively for as long as I can remember; it still feels like my first tournament was yesterday. As the daughter of a (very intense and Russian) coach, I was quickly forced into...

Private to Public: My Transition to Chamblee

Private to Public: My Transition to Chamblee

Ashika Srivastava, Editor October 28, 2021

I was about to enter eighth grade when I received my acceptance letter for the magnet program at Chamblee. After about five years of trying my luck in the magnet “lottery,” my parents had given up...

A Look Into Hispanic Heritage Month at Chamblee

A Look Into Hispanic Heritage Month at Chamblee

Millie Gotsch, Staff Writer October 21, 2021

Chamblee students last month heard different stories of prominent Hispanic figures in history as part of the daily morning announcements. This was all part of the September 15 to October 15 celebration...

Students listening to the presentations

Georgia Innocence Project visits Chamblee 

Kaylee Powell, Staff Writer October 18, 2021

October 2, 2021, marked the eighth annual Wrongful Conviction Day, a globally recognized day meant to raise awareness of the impact wrongful convictions can have on exonerees and their families. Black...

The No Place for Hate club posing with their banner hanging on the gates of Stone Mountain

Chamblee is No Place For Hate (as is Stone Mountain)

Shea Parker, Staff Writer October 8, 2021

Chamblee students may have noticed yellow stickers popping up all across the school. These decals were made to promote one of Chamblee’s clubs, No Place for Hate, whose logo is emblazoned on the stickers. “I...

A long jumper leaps over a chasm

Changes of Olympic Proportions

Adam Pohl, Staff Writer September 3, 2021

The summer Olympics are, for lack of a better word, really cool. The world’s greatest athletes all together in one place, showcasing superhuman strength, speed, and precision--there’s nothing else...

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