Inspired by Brandon Stanton's "Humans of New York," Humans of JHS serves as a look into students' lives. Students are chosen at random to prevent any bias in reporting.

“Mandi's best attribute is her smile and her ability to make others around her smile.  Mandi loves to have people around her and when they are she is always full of smiles and making sure that people...

“Freshman year I tore my ACL playing basketball.  I jumped and heard a pop and tore it.  It was a six month recovery and eight months later I tore it again and also tore my meniscus. I had to sit out...

"Sometimes, I feel like the world is ending for me- in the way that I feel like things aren't ever going to get better. A lot of times I have to come to terms with that by myself. Since a lot of my friends...

"My mom has leukemia. And it's not something that goes away. So, if she doesn't stay with her pills it can come back. It hasn't and she's as healthy as a normal person now, which is amazing, but when...

"My very first year teaching I had a couple of male students that grabbed like one of those media rolly carts and snuck it into the hallway and were riding up and down the hallway and I was really embarrassed,...