The 22nd Annual Westflix Film Festival took place at Paramount Theatre March 15. Westflix is a student-run film festival sponsored by the school that invites student filmmakers across Los Angeles to submit their films to be reviewed and screened. The festival also hosted guest speaker and prominent...
The administration will be implementing a new schedule at the Upper School for the 2025-26 school year, in an effort to strengthen community...
It was early in the morning in the 90s when Academic Support Specialist Gabriela Herrera walked down the hallway of her San Fernando Valley home and peeked into her mother’s room to find it empty. Only her younger sibling was present in the home. Her working, single mother left home early in the morning...
It was a Friday evening after school when Walter*, an eighth grader at the time, sat in his living room watching thedrama show “ER” with his mother. During the episode, a scene was shown in which a character came out as homosexual and kissed another male character. Disgusted, his mother immediately...
It is the summer of 1998. The hot valley sun beat down on Serena Gupta Gandhi’s ’99 face as she sipped her drink, dancing and talking with her friends at a birthday party, while she tried to enjoy the last bit of her summer before starting her junior year. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw her...
The two-week period when sophomores and juniors select their courses for the next year is an important time at the Upper School, as students...
