Decatur’s Bees Disappear

Zoey Laird, Carpe Diem staff
March 13, 2013
Filed under News, Top Stories

Beekeeping club started four years ago when senior Zack Loehle was in the ninth grade. After checking on a hive, he may have experienced a honey bee phenomenon that is occurring across the country. “Bees are really cool ... they’re just really interesting animals,” Loehle said. Several hives... Read more »

Should high school sports drug test?

Sam Levy and Wilson Witherspoon, Carpe Diem staff
March 1, 2013
Filed under Uncategorized

Decatur students well represented in District IV Honors Band

Claudia Tansey, Carpe Diem staff
January 16, 2013
Filed under Student Life, Top Stories

Band students enter audition rooms hoping they’ve prepared enough. They pick up their instruments, look down at musical notes on the page and begin to play. On Saturday, Dec. 8, Decatur band students auditioned for the District IV Honors Band at Lithonia High School. The students competed for... Read more »

Are high school freshmen too young to get recruited?

Sam Levy and Wilson Witherspoon, Carpe Diem staff
December 19, 2012
Filed under Sports

Former DHS band member continues to march as a UGA Redcoat

Audrey Baxter, Carpe Diem staff
November 2, 2012
Filed under Features

Former Decatur student Chloe Moore lifts her instrument to her mouth as she gazes out into the crowd, only seeing a massive blur of red. The signal of the head conductor catches her attention, and she tenses up, ready to play. The college freshmen plays clarinet in the University of Georgia marching... Read more »

Parker transitions from middle school to high school

Max Waterhouse, DEC crew
September 28, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Video

Dr. Beth Parker has been a teacher for 23 years and has seen the differences between middle and high school. “I started my teaching career in high school,” Parker said. She taught for five years at Henry County High School. Parker was a teacher for seven years at Renfroe Middle school. She... Read more »

An alternative to the average Spring Break

Jake Rodgers, Carpe Diem staff
May 18, 2012
Filed under Features, Top Stories

Every spring break, high school and college students take an exodus to the beach. A beach trip isn’t the only thing to do on spring break, though. Another way to spend a week off is through the Alternative Spring Break program. The program is integrated at colleges and universities around the country.... Read more »

Avondale closing: learn before you judge

Amelia Thomas, Carpe Diem staff
May 15, 2012
Filed under Opinions

Playing volleyball all four years of high school, I’ve came across the Avondale High School volleyball team a few times. In the middle of a heated season, Avondale was generally a less threatening opponent. We always won. I found this to also be the case when Decatur competed with Avondale in other... Read more »

Our voice: Pay some respect

Colleen Suratt, Carpe Diem staff
December 19, 2011
Filed under Opinions

Hollywood tends to hyperbolize reality. No one becomes engaged after four dates, nor would anyone dare drive in the opposite direction on the highway. Paramount Pictures’ 2007 film “Freedom Writers,” however, was nearly spot on. It displayed the reality of some of our nation’s high schools –... Read more »

Ripping open region alignments

Sam Levy and Jake Rogers, Carpe Diem staff
October 26, 2011
Filed under Opinions, Sports

The Georgia High School Association (GHSA) created a proposal that adds a sixth classification to high school sports.This proposal means the smallest classification is single A and the largest is AAAAAA  - GHSA denotes classifications by using the letter “A”, meaning 2A equals AA, when spoken one... Read more »