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Pro: Make Classes Test Free

Nate Verny, Freelance Writer
November 12, 2024

After five years of taking tests in every core class, I finally had the opportunity to take a non-exam based academic course: AP U.S. Government and Politics. This class, unlike any I had taken before,...

Con: Keep Testing In

Audrey Kim, Assistant Opinion Editor
November 12, 2024

In middle school, I was studying for an impending math test when the COVID-19 lockdown hit. My math teacher made the test open note and said she would make the questions easier. I immediately stopped doing...

Staff Editorial: Putting Down The Phone

Staff Editorial: Putting Down The Phone

Max Turetzky, Executive Editor
November 5, 2024

When Steve Jobs announced a revolutionary new type of smartphone in 2007, neither he nor anyone else could have predicted its unprecedented impact on an entire generation of society . Almost all of us...

AI Art

Audrey Kim, Assistant Opinion Editor
September 16, 2024

As I scrolled through a random Google Images search, I saw two versions of one painting that looked almost identical. Though it wasn't obvious, a closer glance showed one had several inconsistencies and...

Oceangate media

Oceangate media

Hannah Shahidi, Assistant News Editor
August 25, 2023

When Oceangate’s Titan submersible lost contact with its mothership on June 18, news outlets around the world were constantly publishing updates, captivating viewers globally. The entire world shifted...

An illustration depicts President Joe Biden standing in front of a podium.

Calling Biden to action

Lucas Cohen-d'Arbeloff
May 26, 2022

When National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, she laid out a vision of hope and unity for the United States' next...

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Vote “YES” on democracy, “NO” on the recall

Lucas Cohen-D'Arbeloff
August 28, 2021

Millions of Californians, including many school seniors, can now find mail-in ballots on their doorstep. The helm of our state government hangs in the balance. Recall organizers garnered more than 2 million...

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Keeping the Olympic flame alive

Daphne Davies
August 26, 2021

My heart pounded as I rubbed chalk onto my hands, hoping I would remember the intricate sequence of skills that comprised my uneven bars routine. I rehearsed it mentally for weeks, a welcome distraction...

Elections, Claire-ified

Claire Conner
August 26, 2021

When students submit their ballots for prefect elections in the spring, they will make two reasonable assumptions: their votes will be counted, and the candidates with the highest number of votes will...

The Dangers of Anonymity

The Dangers of Anonymity

Editorial Board
March 24, 2021

In October of 2020, The Chronicle published an article about the Instagram account @wokeathw, a platform dedicated to “documenting the self-destruction of an elite private school.” The article was...

Guest Editorial: A letter to journalist Bari Weiss

Thomas Schramm
March 17, 2021

The following letter was written by a student to journalist Bari Weiss in response to her article “The Miseducation of America’s Elites,” which was published March 9 in City Journal magazine. To...

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Writing in defense of our democracy

Julian Andreone
December 10, 2020

Our history textbooks characterize the United States government as the prime example of democracy, but if students examine its current state, they will find that Trumpian era politics embody the opposite. With...

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