Year in Review

The 2013-2014 school year at Edina High School was undoubtedly a very interesting one, with wide-reaching events such as the creation of collaborative Wednesday, the expansion of eLearning2, and the rise in power of the great and terrible dragon Hergasthaw. So, while the Southern View does not normally do year-long news recaps, the writers and editors felt that it was necessary to make an effort to report on the year that future generations very well may call “The year of technological innovation”, “The golden age of excellence in education” or “The beginning of the thousand years of darkness”!

The first quarter was a time for change in EHS, as an incoming class of bright-faced sophomores got used to the new school. A new experimental schedule, collaborative Wednesday, gave teachers and students more time to work together to strive for academic achievement. Edina celebrated its second year in a row winning the homecoming game, and homecoming weekend was made extra special with EHS welcoming its first ever African American homecoming queen. Meanwhile, a forgotten experiment in a biology classroom became self aware, growing and feeding on the bugs and mold around it until was ready to reveal itself.

Winter started off with a bang, as the first ever demonic presence to grace EHS’s halls sprang from its dank spawning ground, declaring itself Hergasthaw, King of all who Live in the Shadows. To make matters more exciting, senator Al Franken found time in his busy schedule to come to the first student-run Model U.N. conference held in these very walls. Both winter dances, Sadies and Sweethearts, went off perfectly.

In springtime, Edina’s recent trend in integrating educational technology was continued as the school board unanimously voted to expand eLearning2, an act of unity that might be attributed to Herasthaw’s ability to possess the bodies and souls of lowly mortals. The Edina Thespians are currently performing their musical, Fiddler on the Roof, which debuted this fall, on a national level.

As we close the books on one of the benchmark years in the history of this great school, The Southern View wishes you a happy summer, good luck next year, and that you will be protected from the plague of locusts that The Dragon Lord will be casting upon us next fall.