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Where to Study (or Not): Rating the Tulsa Public Libraries

Every time I try to study in my house I feel like I'm the least productive person to exist. From wanting to crawl back into my warm bed and just go to sleep or my brothers screaming while playing some video game studying at home is just insanely difficult, but if I studied in a cafe every day my bank account would cry at the cost of having to buy some overpriced coffee just for a quiet warm place with wifi to get some homework done. Luckily libraries exist to give you a free study space with wifi. In this article, I’m going to rate the different public libraries all within eight miles of the school. I will rate the libraries on a scale of one to ten based on their noise level, their vibe and aesthetic, their seating, and their charging stations because we all know the school-assigned Chromebook's battery life is non-existent. Rating these libraries I’ll start off with the closest to the high school being only 0.4 miles away, and the smallest library I visited, and then will work our way out to the furthest library being just less than eight miles away.

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ICAP or Admin Caps?

Since the inception of Individual Career Academic Planning, or ICAP, “Stay Put Tuesday” has been right along to ride its coattails. Stay Put Tuesday is an initiative put in place by administrators at Jenks to help encourage students to work on their ICAP assignments during Advisory. Where students are typically allowed to move freely around the school and get the help they need from different teachers, “Stay Put Tuesday” shuts that down and keeps students enclosed in their advisory.

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