Alice Fong Yu was born on March 2, 1905, in the gold mining town of Washington, California. She is a hero who encountered copious amounts of discrimination from the day she was born for being Chinese American. Her biggest encounter was rejection from San Francisco State Teachers College for her aim of a teaching job despite...

The new implementation of the San Diego Unified School District-wide cellphone ban has begun this 23-24 school year, with complete enforcement planned for the upcoming year. At Hoover High School, the proposed new campus policy consists of students storing their cell phones inside a cabinet at the front of the class.  This...

I don’t think that they should ban tiktok.  They should just make it safer so users are able to use it safely without having to fear their private information being collected. The creators of social media should be responsible for the app not being safe enough and should be able to fix or add tools to the app to make sure...

As a student enrolled at Hoover High School, I've seen a few things that might really help our school right now. One of the changes would be how people see the school. Hoover has a lot of exciting things happening, but not everyone knows about it. Let me start by saying that Hoover has something for everyone in terms of education...

Ice cream reminds me of childhood. My mom would always give me ice cream after a meal or on a very hot day or we would stop by an ice cream shop and get ice cream after school. Ice cream is a very popular dessert, and you can get it almost anywhere like groceries stores and liquor stores.  There are even people who sell...

Self-care is very important. Whenever you feel stressed or overwhelmed it's important to do things for yourself. Some things I do for my own self care are listening to music, going on walks, or even taking naps to make me feel better. I like listening to slow music to help me relax. I listen to artists like Lana Del Rey,...

It was announced on Wednesday, January 31, that the spring musical at Hoover High School will be the high school version of Mean Girls. According to choir director Mr. Mark Gonzales, his first choice was the musical Six.  But it was not available for high schools on the west coast because a North American tour will be performing...

The publications staff of Hoover High School started working on this year's yearbook a few weeks into the school year.  The 2024 theme is "People Will Talk." After a staff discussion which included how social media plays an important part of students' everyday lives, whatever is shown on Instagram or Tik Tok is what students...

  Ms. Andrea Munoz ~ AHHC and Head Conselor Ms. Andrea Munoz is the head counselor at Hoover while representing and supervising the Academy of Health and Healthy Communities, or AHHC for short. She has been working at Hoover for about 12 years and is still going! Fun fact, Ms. Munoz used to work at Clark Middle...

Mr. Ted Hernandez ~ SJA Director Mr.  Ted Hernandez is the Social Justice Academy (SJA) director. He has been teaching here at Hoover High School for about 22 years now and has shown his love and passion for teaching every day since. Mr. Hernandez is a friendly and supportive teacher and truly shows his dedication...