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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

School reports record absences due to illness

School reports record absences due to illness

Justin Tang and Nathan Wang
December 14, 2022

The school reported a record-breaking 344 sick absences in November this year, the most since March 2019, according to Student Discipline and Attendance coordinator Gabriel Preciado. In the most recent...

Community reflects on pandemic

Lucas Cohen-d'Arbeloff
May 31, 2022

Since the school first closed because of COVID-19 on March 11, 2020 over two years ago, the community has undergone several stages of lockdown, online learning and safety protocols. With over one million...

On the Edge

On the Edge

Siobhan Harms and Mak Kriksciun
November 13, 2019

As Sierra* ’21 sat on the cold, unwelcoming linoleum floor of a residential treatment center, she said she felt alone and misunderstood, isolated by a mental illness that was misrepresented by both...

A case of pertussis returns to campus

Crystal Baik
October 10, 2019

Community Health Officer Milo Sini informed the school community that a current student that has been diagnosed with pertussis Thursday. The school previously experienced a pertussis outbreak in the 2018-19...

Photo Illustration by Nicole Kim

Missing in Action: Consequences of Long-term Illnesses and Injuries

Sammi Handler
October 7, 2016

One moment Jessica Dickman ’17 was at a concert with her friend, watching as a band member dove off the stage. The next, everything went dark. After the band member landed on her and Dickman passed...

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