Alexa Nguonly, Lynn Nguyen, and Sharon KimDecember 17, 2015
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Crossing boundaries
MEX spirit in shambles
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![At the start of this school year, principal Dr. Ann Bonitatibus collected containers filled with slips of paper. Staff members wrote their beliefs and hopes relating to innovation at Jefferson. “Everybody [is] coming out of COVID with some energy again, and we want to start getting our neurons firing about whats new, whats exciting,” Dr. Bonitatibus said. “To me, innovation is next. Every week Im planting seeds with their own ideas, not mine.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/lighting-in-a-bottle-picture-475x344.png)
![“I’ve found that the students are very quick to argue with me and with each other. Sometimes, we gotta move on, Levy said, But I’d rather have that, than, [me] just talking and nobody really has any response to it, or to each other.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Levy-475x315.png)
![Caption: Students line up to get food from the Jefferson cafeteria. [This policy is] mostly behind the scenes, were trying to eliminate some food waste is all, junior and Treasurer Matt Sprintson said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/tjtodayfood-475x347.png)
![Kai Bilal performs during the sophomores MEX dance despite struggles with boys building interest and participation. The initial demo seemed kind of hard, sophomore Zeerak Yusufi said. It was fast paced and the [guys] just lost interest. There were no friend groups, either—it was just random people who decided to come to MEX, so there was no hype. We [didnt] generate enough interest.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_2427-475x317.jpg)