News Archives - Brookfield Central Tyro

Local communities greatly affected by Coronavirus

March 16, 2020

Brookfield resident JingMing Huang was visiting family just outside of Wuhan when the lockdown happened. He...

Behind the scenes: StuCo at Brookfield Central speaks about the Spirit of Excellence Award

March 16, 2020

This year’s Winter Pep Assembly doubled as an award ceremony for the Wisconsin Association of Student Councils (WASC). T...

New Elmbrook initiative: going paperless

Neha Ajjampore and Emily Otten

January 6, 2020

If you’ve gone to print at the library in the past few weeks, you might have noticed a poster behind the printer with a crying Paul Bunyan on it urging you to save paper. The disappointed lumberjack is the new face of the Elmbrook School District’s initiative to reduce paper consumption within schools. This new initiative...

Night to remember: Sam Dawood crowned Mr. BC

January 6, 2020

The clock reads 8:15 p.m. and the crowd is a hurricane of activity and high energy. A week of intense...

To the BC community: Mr. Gruetzmacher shares words regarding recent school shootings

Stephanie Chen, Head Editor-in-Chief

December 27, 2019

Monday, December 2—a 17-year-old student at Waukesha South High School is shot by the school resource officer after bringing two realistic-looking pellet guns to school and threatening a fellow classmate with them. Tuesday, December 3—a 16-year-old student at Oshkosh West High School is shot by the school resource officer...

Redesigned safety protocol aims to strengthen school security

Sariya Banday and Pooja Manohar and Manal Nazir

November 8, 2019

April 20, 1999: a school shooting at Columbine High School drastically changed the way schools in the United States were viewed. No longer were schools associated with just desks, textbooks, and algebra tests, but also with gunshots, lockdowns, and dead victims. According to The Washington Post’s database of school shootings,...