New Articles
- January 30Air system issues plague Hereford personnel
- January 18Is release time excessive? No
- December 20Christmas music is overtaking the holiday season
- December 18Holiday seasons aren’t just for joy and cheer
- December 15Senior day boosts class spirit
- December 14Black Friday poses threat to planet
- November 15Scorsese’s new film highlights forgotten Native American history
- November 15Hereford Signing Day: A milestone moment for senior athletes
- November 15Is the Stanley tumbler worth the hype?
- November 10Johnny Dingus Band covers and creates
Lauren R. • Jun 10, 2020 at 8:12 pm
You don’t have to agree with what Chloe wrote, but this is NOT the place to bring up personal grudges you have against the Harbinger staff. Your comments on the piece should be directed at the content (which I’m happy to see most are), not at the writers’ character or any “beef” you might’ve had with them in the past. Feel free to leave a counter argument about why you disagree with what was said, but do the adult thing and message her personally if you have a genuine problem you need to talk out. Let’s not forget this is a school publication, not your private Instagram account.
Jackson G. • Jun 10, 2020 at 10:54 am
I think I can speak for many Hereford students by stating my excitement surrounding the senior edition of the Hereford Harbinger this year. Last year, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the senior superlatives and college decisions. Fortunately enough, I was still able to enjoy many of these fun traditions in the Harbinger even while we are not physically at school. However, I thought one article, in particular, was accusatory in nature and used vague evidence to create a harmful opinion piece that attacks the lower-classmen students. To add my own opinion to this article written by Chloe Parker, I believe that if any message is to be taken from 2020 so far, it is that generalizing a group of people can be destructive. The reckless article specifically targets the freshman class as a whole for many vandalism incidents that have taken place at the school this year. As far as I know, it was not made publically known who committed these disturbing acts of vandalism, therefore it is unjust to target a specific class for these actions. In addition, Chloe Parker makes a blatant attempt to antagonize the lower-classmen by saying, “Go ahead and send your friends after me, I’ll be gone by the time they can catch me.” This was said in the midst of using more hurtful and stereotypical generalizations, such as suggesting that freshman girls have senior boyfriends who don’t love them and that many lower-classmen students are down-right lazy. I’m not sure whether Chloe Parker thought she could drop a bomb on the classes below her and just graduate, never to think about it again, or whether she thought she had a platform to speak negatively about an entire class. But If Chloe Parker truly wanted to inspire the lower-classmen to “pull themselves together,” then this is a failed job and unfortunate at best.
Jade Minetos • Jun 9, 2020 at 11:36 pm
Seeing the most recent release of the Hereford Harbinger was heartfelt to say the least, as it is Hereford’s last capture of the class of 2020 before they step into the next exciting chapter that is in store for each of them next. Although they had many things ripped from their hands at the last moment, it is evident that they made the absolute best of an unforeseen situation. Despite the positivity sprinkled amongst this paper, I stumbled upon a submission by senior Chloe Parker in the opinion section of our Harbinger that made me scrunch my eyebrows wonder exactly the intentions behind her words. It is understandable and clear to all that this is her opinion piece and owns all rights as well as validity to her opinion. Simultaneously, many can agree to disagree with this small section of the paper. Her article titled “If you haven’t heard, understand the hierarchy” entails many opinions pertaining to all classes below the senior class of 2020. Her article also includes a diagram of a hierarchy that summarizes her overall opinions on the placement of high school students, with the class of 2020 at the top and the remaining classes in decreasing order follow. The writer continues to seemingly insult the classes below the class of 2020 as well as claim, “Please, I’m trying to help you.” In reality, I truly don’t believe there is a structured high school hierarchy that seems to scream nothing but entitlement and insecurity. Of course, there is the classic screaming “freshman suck” at the annual pep rally as well as the pep rally basketball game where the seniors of that school year usually win as tradition. But I don’t believe I have ever seen or heard of someone saying, “stay in your place because you’re a junior.” If so, then how are freshmen being accepted onto varsity teams that are supposedly only for juniors and seniors? How are there sophomores currently taking AP Biology, because I thought that class was “juniors and seniors only?” There are NOT certain things you can and can’t do as far as social interaction and your place amongst others based on your grade level. You ARE placed on a hierarchy based on something that contributes to a much larger idea than high school: the way you act. If you continuously call someone names that cause them to go home from school crying on a daily basis, it will certainly put you in a different place in the universe in comparison to others. Reading something like this submission comes off as if the writer is superior and has the authority and right to put others in their imaginary “place.” In reality, why is the writer so focused on the placement of others she sees as below herself and others the same age when, really, secure people see themselves as not above, not below, but equal to everyone else? To my last point, the writer includes in her article, “Go ahead and send your friends after me, I’ll be gone by the time that you catch me.” No ma’am. Nobody has to send anyone after you in order for the universe to spit you right back at the bottom of the hierarchy you thought you were sitting perfectly on the top of. If you read this much, thank you for reading.
Liv • Jun 9, 2020 at 9:37 pm
I was really looking forward to this issue and i will say i was both pleasantly surprised and not so pleasantly surprised by some of the things in here. Similar to past years, i really enjoyed seeing where all the seniors would be attending college and thought the color scheme of this years was very visually pleasing. I also really enjoyed how this years issue didn’t just highlight the sports but also highlighted a lot of the arts as well. One thing i wasn’t a huge fan of was the article written by Chloe Parker in the opinion section. While yes, it is an opinion article and it is her last “mic drop” moment, i think the article really did nothing but show how much of a high school peak she was. After being a teammate of chloes, i noticed how she really seems to enjoy talking down on others that aren’t in her “group” / grade level. Im not just saying it’s ONLY her because there are others that act similarly but that’s just whose article this is. As i was saying though, i do think that it’s stuff like this that really splits grade levels apart . After talking to older HHS graduates, i learned age and grade level weren’t really such a big deal when it came to friendships in the past but certainly these last two years they sure seemed to have been.