We are a pill society, taking a pill for everything from headaches to muscle aches, pain, joy, sleep, weight control, and stress. Illicit drugs fit into our culture because people want the […]
Fentanyl: A Dangerous Killer Drug (Part IV)
Sunny Hills High student receives study abroad scholarship
Aidan Wong needed to make a choice – what language to take during high school. Spanish. Korean. Mandarin. German. “I didn’t want to take Spanish because virtually everyone takes it,” Wong said. […]
High School Board Highlights: July 26 Meeting
Despite increasing community COVID positive numbers, there was no mention of future mitigation measures if cases continue to rise. There were no school reports and both teacher union FSTO President Angie Cencak […]
School District Notes: Summer Edition
Fullerton School District Board meets at 6pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at district headquarters, 1401 W Valencia Dr, Fullerton. For agendas go to: http://www.fullertonsd.org or call (714) […]
Young Observers: August Edition
As we wrap up our two-month summer break, a new bell schedule awaits us when we return to school this fall. Middle schools and high schools are to “begin no earlier than […]
Observing Fullerton Episode #22: Professor ChorSwang Ngin
Today, Urooj sits down with ChorSwang Ngin, a semi-retired professor of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles. Ngin is an award-winning applied sociocultural anthropologist with expertise relating to issues of culture […]
FJUHSD Board Meetings for June 2022
Honors At the first of two June Fullerton Joint Union High School District (FJUHSD) board meetings, the trustees honored Troy High School Cyber Patriot students for placing second in the 2021/22 National […]
Young Observers: July Edition
Young Observers is not just a group of student volunteers who write for the Fullerton Observer. Now in its 4th year, the club has expanded to include a separate group of volunteers […]
Graduating with a Uterus
In today’s fragile political climate, it is often easy for symbols to be misrepresented. During the Fullerton Union High School graduation, senior Scarlet Marenco had her graduation cap confiscated due to her […]
Fentanyl: a Dangerous Killer Drug: Part II
One of the more common causes of becoming addicted to opioids and then dying of fentanyl comes from injuries in high school sports. I interviewed the parents of a young man who […]
