By JASON SALAZAR, Columnist
SCHUYLER, Neb. (October, 2025)— On CBS News, reporter Steve Hartman became popular with his story segment titled “Everybody Has a Story.”
The idea of the segment is as straightforward as it gets: Hartman would throw a dart at a U.S. map and travel wherever it landed.
Once there Hartman would point to a random name from a phone book and tell that individual’s tale.
That’s it. No celebrities, and the only expectation was that wherever a person goes, everyone has something that is worth saying.
Hartman’s stories gave a faceless America the same national significance as public officials and nationally recognized artists.
Through stories about love, courage, humor and loss Hartman employed the power of journalism with surgical precision. That power does not lie in breaking records, but in the discovery of human truths.
Those same truths, that Hartman discovered from the middle of nowhere and the heights of major city skyscrapers also exist in every hallway and classroom at Schuyler Central High School.
Schuyler, Nebraska is filled with the people whose untold and often unnoticed. Tales of kindness, challenge and triumph have made SCHS and community what they are.
Much like the United States Schuyler Central High School has its share of untold tales.
A school is its own small world. It has hundreds of unique experiences and incredible stories that can often be found hiding just a few desks away.
Student Spotlight is an invitation to you, the reader, to step back and look at the people around you, and experience what Hartman meant when he said, “If you stop and listen long enough, people will amaze you.”
