It is the general consensus among the American public that children belong at school. The benefits are seemingly endless: receiving an education, being safe and protected, and acquiring the skills necessary for success and prosperity in the future. Yet so often is it taken for granted that children are able to get to school at all; so ingrained is it in the routines of most American school children and their families that the bus will pick them up from their streetcorner in the morning, deposit them at school, and drop them home again in the afternoon. But what are the benefits for the bus drivers?
When the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States in the early spring of 2020, a panic swept the nation even faster than the disease itself. In a frenzy, people bought out the cleaning supply sections of stores, stocked up on masks, and hunkered down in their homes to protect themselves and their families and wait out the virus. Yet, for the nation’s unhoused population, safely hiding away from the virus inside their homes was not an option.
The COVID-19 virus was first identified as a new virus in December 2020. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is a single-stranded RNA coronavirus with spikes on the surface. As a highly infectious...
I have experienced that hybrid school can have an isolating effect, and I often wonder if my peers have similar feelings about this year. To get a better sense of how SSFS students feel, I asked various highschoolers about their thoughts on whether creativity and collaboration have been stunted or expanded during this hybrid learning period.
Living on a dorm in high school is going to be hard no matter what, with or without factoring in a deadly virus.. It sounds like the dorm has done an impressive job when it comes to creating a safe environment that allows for students to live on campus, and students can still have a good time. Nonetheless, from what I’ve heard, it still sounds like dorm staff and students have issues around privacy which definitely isn’t unique to this year.
The concept of a face mask, an effortless yet inhibitory measure, has evolved into a massive debate between Republicans and Democrats in the United States.
Wednesday, June 10.
12:15 a.m.
The last day of school.
Normal thing to say, but during an abnormal time.
I’m ending this school year in quarantine, in my house.
I, along with...
While this quarantine is certainly showing us how we can continue activities in ways we didn’t think possible, the isolation might help us realize why we need in-person connection as opposed to speeding up the switch to online.
