Kicking with Ken

Mckenzie Rhone, Carpe Diem staff
March 1, 2013
Filed under Features, Top Stories

He may be known as the guy who pesters students about AP forms, or the guy in charge of guiding students to college, but what many might not know is that Counselor Ken Jackson is a certified Group Kickboxing instructor. After a long day of phone calls, answering questions and nagging students about... Read more »

Failure: teachers discuss the many aspects of failing a class

Sumar Deen and Leela Goshorn, Carpe Diem staff
May 23, 2012
Filed under Features

John Hudson “Math is the one class that people get really emotional about. They have either a very good or a very bad feeling about it when they get out of school. I remember failing my first math test in college. I was probably like a lot of Decatur High students. I was pretty smart but I didn’t... Read more »

Teachers & babies

May 18, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Multimedia, Top Stories, Video

Having children is both a challenge and a blessing, now imagine having the job if educating hundreds more. Jay Brown and Britt Pendergrast talked to some of the faculty's newest parents. [vimeo 42403736 nolink]

Juniors and senior girls to compete in powder puff football game

Colleen Suratt, Carpe Diem staff
May 15, 2012
Filed under News, Top Stories

Without the pressure to plan Homecoming and Prom, Decatur’s Student Government Association (SGA) has been working this spring to bring back a tradition that has had a short intermission. On Thursday, May 17, the junior and senior girls will compete in a powder puff football game. “We’re really... Read more »

Decatur’s teachers show their ink

Summer O’Neill, DEC crew
May 1, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Multimedia, Top Stories, Video

The city of Decatur is often labelled by residents and critics as an interesting, accepting city. So accepting, that in certain workplaces (like DHS), professionals are allowed to display their body modifications proudly. 3Ten got to talk to some inked teachers about their own tattoos, and what good... Read more »

Fresh-ior teachers

Henry Schunk, DEC Crew
March 29, 2012
Filed under News, Top Stories

Freshmen and seniors are at opposite ends of the classroom spectrum. At one end there are all freshmen classes and freshmen teachers, and at the other there are all senior classes with senior teachers. But what about those classes where the teachers teach both freshmen and seniors in the same subject?... Read more »

Cardoza among the best new teachers in Georgia

February 10, 2012
Filed under News

"Decatur High School Spanish teacher Carlos Cardoza-Oquendo was among 40 of Georgia’s best and brightest new teachers to receive a $1,000 New Teacher Assistance Grant from Georgia Power." Read more here.

New teachers reflect on first semester

Connor Allison, DEC Crew
February 9, 2012
Filed under Features, Top Stories

David Custer, Chris Watkinson, and Carlos Cardoza all come from different backgrounds, but hey have one thing in common. They are all new teachers at Decatur. Carlos Cardoza knows Decatur. He graduated from the school in 2005 and went on to graduate from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah... Read more »

Omar Collinton leads way as teachers rout students

Sam Levy, Carpe Diem Staff
November 14, 2011
Filed under Sports

The crowd hushed. Tension was in the air. The first home basketball game of the 2011-2012 season was about to start. The players on the floor prepared themselves for the tip. But there was one thing missing – the standard blue and gold jerseys of the Bulldogs. All of the players on boys and girls basketball... Read more »

IB, eh?

Hannah Reiss, Carpe Diem Staff
September 19, 2011
Filed under News

Early this school year, three of Decatur’s brave pioneers ventured to a foreign land to learn the trade secrets of a magical method of education. Well, sort of. English teachers, Cara Cassell, Chris Parizo and Kerri Williams went to an International Baccalaureate (IB) program conference in Toronto,... Read more »