The Student News Site of South Forsyth High School

The Bird Feed

The Student News Site of South Forsyth High School

The Bird Feed

The Student News Site of South Forsyth High School

The Bird Feed

The Forsyth County Sheriffs Office places an advertisement that they are hiring in downtown Cumming, GA. This advertisement is here to bring awareness to the public, and hopefully attract potential recruits.

Staffing Shortages Create Strain for Law Enforcement Agencies Across the Nation

Tally Meer, Staff Writer October 1, 2022

Law enforcement agencies throughout the United States are facing major staffing shortages. The staffing shortage is largely affecting major cities including Atlanta, Kansas City, Chicago and Seattle. Between...

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Accessible testing. The Biden administration recently announced that they are allowing every American household to order up to four free at-home COVID-19 testing kits. These kits are available to order at covidtests.gov.

US Government Distributes Free COVID-19 Tests to All Residents

Shree Delwadia and Tisha Kaur January 24, 2022

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed into action a plan in which all households in the country could receive four free COVID-19 tests. The goal of this plan is to reduce the number of COVID-19...

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Facebook binoculars. The young man on the screen stares into your soul through the lens of Facebook. You wondered, how much of me do they really see and control?

Facebook’s Facade: Unveiling the Truths of Big Tech’s Master Puppeteer

Shivani Murugapiran, Staff Writer November 22, 2021

Close your eyes for a moment and reflect. Who are you? What do you believe in? Why does this matter to you?  Without our own knowledge, an outside force influences our ideological frameworks. An elusive...

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Political cartoon of Biden playing against Trump in football. America is split into two teams, team Biden and team Trump. The days following the election were tense, with both teams fighting for a victory and the respect of the crowd of American citizens.

A rundown of the election that split America

Kailee O'Donnell and Sayna Kaushik December 17, 2020

On November 3, voters throughout Forsyth County participated in the 2020 election to choose their next president. Little did the county and nation know that this election would be like no other before,...

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Rest in peace. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an influential woman who changed lives. Her successes helped many women around the world. Photo used via flickr under creative commons.

The Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a One-Woman Show

Saahithya Gutta, Lifestyle & Features Editor, Social Media Lead October 21, 2020

The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020, sent shockwaves throughout the entire nation and raised the stakes for this year’s presidential election. This tragic event...

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Dangerous borders. This capture embodies the serene and placid Tigris river by the Eastern side of the Turkey-Syrian border. However, these countries’ borders are highly unsafe and risky to be around since there are constant attacks and activity between Kurdish rebel groups and Turkey.

South’s Voices on the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict

Minakshi Shivananda, News Editor November 1, 2019

An unknown topic has risen in the midst of the already tenuous Middle Eastern problems: the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. This conflict has been significant in the Middle East starting from the 1970s and tensions...

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Social Economics

Social Economics

Shourya Arashanapalli, Contributing Political Cartoonist October 14, 2019

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The real crisis. Immigrants all throughout the United States, criminals or not, are being pulled out of their homes and arrested. This was one of the many brutal actions taken against these aliens. Image used via Flickr with permission under Creative Commons.

Investigating the REAL Illegal Immigration Crisis

Naisha Roy, Copy Editor February 1, 2019

America. Land of the free and home of the brave. Or at least, that was the moniker this nation used to endorse. However, with the recent events regarding the spike in deportation and haphazard arrests,...

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President Trump announced the government shutdown December 27th. Since then, this government shutdown has become the longest one in the history of the United States. The government continues to try to reach a compromise in order to end the shutdown.

Affecting the masses: South Forsyth families and how they deal with the government shutdown

Kate Haas, Senior Editor January 18, 2019

Since December 27th, the United States government has been in a government shutdown, leaving thousands of government employees unpaid but still required to go to work. Employees have now missed two paychecks,...

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Student Opinions: The Latest Threat to Womens Rights

Student Opinions: The Latest Threat to Womens’ Rights

Mitali Bidkar, Contibuting writer December 17, 2018

In the twenty-first century, more advances in feminism and women’s rights have been made than ever before. Zimbabwe banned child marriage, Taiwan inaugurated its first female president, and the...

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