Miscellaneous Yappers

This past summer our wonderful Beacon Program decided to to throw their annual Showcase. Similar to a talent show our Beacon Showcase gives our participants a chance to showcase their talents to the rest of the program.  We had one of our most infamous Yappers, Raquel, help with the backstage interviews of the showcase. We also had one of our other infamous Yappers in Violet not only perform at th...

Welcome back Yappers of the Miscellaneous Variety. On this episode we take one of your favorite Yappers on the road to interview some of the Pillars of Beacon at M.S. 158. Raquel and I took to the road to interview Tony Jones who has been apart of the program for 22 years and counting. We also interviewed George who has been at the program for over 30 years. We also interviewed some of the the cou...

This episode puts an emphasis on our two most infamous yappers, Raquel and Violet! Some may know this show as, "Violet and the Others" or "Raquel and Friends." On this episode we asked our yappers about conflict resolution. If we as a society want to move forward amicably, then it is imperative to know how our future generation handles a variety of issues. I also thought that it would be interesti...

We're not done yapping yet!! Thank you to all the supporting yappers out there. On this episode we had the extraordinary Violet focus her journalistic skills on a member of our Admin Staff here at M.S. 158.  The wonderful Noni Murphy, once a counselor, used her social skills, ability to connect and emphathize with the youth that attend our program, and her social work expertise to climb the ranks...

Welcome back to the Miscellaneous Yappers! On this episode we spoke about where you're from. We left this question open to interpretation as it give us a little insight to who the person is. For instance when asked this question some people might say the country that their parents originate from, the country that they are from, or the neighborhood they live in. This tells us where the person think...

Welcome back Yapees and Yapettes. One of today's Miscellaneous topics is influence, who is influencing our youth? What celebrities are the future generation looking up to? We all wanted to be like somebod growing up, and it is our responsibility to make sure that the future want to end up like the right people. We also yapped about ways to improve our wonderful school M.S. 158, how we manage stres...

Welcome back to the Miscellaneous Yappers! Where the world's greatest middle schoolers give you insight on how the average 11-14 is living in today's society. One of today's miscellaneous topics is why are the kids of today seemingly addicted to their technology? In an age where social media and technology have been the most prevalent throughout history, more and more today both child and adult al...

Welcome to the wonderful world that is the Miscellaneous Yappers. Thank you so much for tuning in, it means the worlld to us! In this very first episode we yap about the lives of the average 12 year old of today. Not suprisinglly in comparison to the 12 year olds of the past their daily lives differ greatly. Apparently 12 year olds do makeup now, have a FAR greater allowance than I could ever imag...