On March 30th, through the low hum of midday traffic on 116th Street, the piercing roar of a rocket could be heard throughout the fields of 60 Acres Park in Renton. As a group of students admired their...
“They’re our teachers, and that’s all they should be.” Those were the opening words of Isolde Raftery’s editorial on student-teacher relationships in the November 23, 1999 issue of the Messenger....
Vivian Song, 45, is a board director on the Seattle School Board, the governing body in charge of Seattle Public Schools. But she is also a mom to four children, one, who on a damp and cloudy Saturday...
The Epstein files are a collection of documents, emails, videos, and images relating to the investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. Although the public files consist of millions of items, they are...
“When you standardize something so that you can measure success in it… and you make it so anyone can learn it, it's just like math—it puts you in a little bit of a box.” That’s what Garfield’s...
Many Bulldogs have probably seen the men and women, clad in neon green, who stand at the intersection of 23rd and Jefferson during lunchtime and the end of school. While they serve a very visible role...
Afrofuturism. “Art that envisioned a more joyful, liberated future for black people and all people,” Rachel Edleman, a 10th grade Language Arts teacher at Garfield, defined. It’s “reimagining either...
During the annual Black Lives Matter Week assembly at Garfield High School on February 14, students witnessed eight-year-old Zaina Brooks, better known as Zaina the Phenom, performing her songs Children...
Nestled on the corner of 23rd diagonal to the Garfield Community Center lives local flower shop, Flowers Just 4 U. Its bright neon signs hang in the window reading “Bouquets” and “Balloons” while...
On Monday, November 25, 2024, students said their farewells to Garfield’s head chef, Tabari Ahmad, known as Chef TB.
After 15 years in the culinary field, Ahmad started at Garfield in 2021 and has...
As the second semester creeps to an end, many students have still yet to fulfill the graduating requirement of sixty hours of service. For seniors rushing to complete this task last minute, juniors who...
Garfield High School’s Jazz 1 ensemble is one of Garfield’s most successful programs, fostering many nationally recognized musicians. Only five members are women, a fraction of the 26-person band,...
