![Alexander Oki ‘28 picks up trash in the lower parking lot Feb. 20. According to Keep America Beautiful, the majority of the trash found on both roads and waterways consists of fast food wrappers and packaging, receipts and plastic beverage bottles. Clubs like the National Honor Society (NHS) offer students the opportunity to earn service hours by cleaning up the trash in the parking lots. “[The trash] makes us look very unhygienic and unmotivated to be a proper school,” Emberlyse Vidal ‘28 said. “It makes us look like we just don't care about our students' environments.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260220_1355020-2-1200x904.jpg)
School Board Politics: Protesters Gather Together at DCSD Headquarters
Douglas County School District community members assembled Feb. 3 in protest of recent actions the Board of Education has taken.
February 5, 2022
On a day of below-freezing temperatures, a clear blue sky and school canceled due to a district-wide teacher sick out, an estimated 1,000+ community members congregated around the Douglas County School District’s headquarters in Castle Rock Feb. 3 after multiple divisive moves made by the Douglas County School District’s Board of Education.
Read more: School Board Division Leads to Community Action
media by Claire Bauer
A protestor shows his disapproval of the school board's recent actions with a sign saying, "The vote was about masks, not for some secret policy agenda," at the protest Feb. 3.