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Quaker Ridge School closes for the day after two students exhibited possible symptoms of COVID-19.

QRS is Remote For the Day After Potential COVID-19 Cases Arise

Alexandra Chu October 15, 2020

At around 8:15 AM on Thursday, Scarsdale families received an email explaining that students attending Quaker Ridge School would not go to school that day. Earlier that morning, two students at QRS woke...

Parents express disdain for current learning model: Administration plans for cross cohort learning

Parents Express Disdain For Current Learning Model; Administration Plans For Cross Cohort Learning

Lilac Lin and Sam Siegel October 15, 2020

On Monday, October 5, Scarsdale’s Board of Education (BOE) convened to discuss whether hybrid learning is the correct approach to education. While the first segment of the meeting allowed the Scarsdale...

Desks are six feet apart as a result of social distancing guidelines.

Hybrid Model Poses Hybrid Opinions

Sydney Piccoli October 15, 2020

After a long summer of meticulous planning for the school year, the Scarsdale High School administration has finally had a chance to see their plan in action. SHS has returned to its busy atmosphere, but...

Students are hoping for and looking forward to more nights like this 2019 football game.

SHS Students React to Fall Sports

Hyunjin Lee and Emily Wang October 2, 2020

As SHS made plans during the summer to reopen, high school student-athletes and coaches wondered what would become of the fall sports season. Tryouts, under normal circumstances, usually start at the end...

Long-time gender equality advocate and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away last Friday at age 87.

The Death of an Icon: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87

Sydney Piccoli and Lilac Lin September 24, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female Supreme Court Justice, died last weekend at age 87. An inspiration to young girls everywhere, RBG's commitment to achieving gender equality is one of the many reasons...

Teachers deliver powerful sentiments at a Board of Education Meeting

SHS Teachers Fight to Have Their Voices Heard – and for Their Lives

Sydney Piccoli September 2, 2020

Teachers were involved in formulating the original plan for the upcoming school year which involved a fully remote model with no in-person learning for ninth through twelfth graders. However, a fully remote...

Big brands issue statements responding to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Big Brands Respond to BLM: Delivering Statements Faster than Products

Emily Wang June 22, 2020

Large brands and companies have countless tasks to do, such as delivering products or  coming up with innovative new ideas. Recently, they have taken on another crucial challenge. Many Americans have...

SHS Seniors throw their graduation caps during the Class of 2019 graduation ceremony.

People Say Senior Year Flies By; for Class of 2020, it Zooms

Chelsea Berson June 20, 2020

“Being a senior during this unsettling time period isn’t easy. It’s upsetting that we all worked so hard for 13 years and it had to end like this. Since I was little, I always looked forward to getting...

Student-run Camps Emerge in the Summer of 2020

Student-run Camps Emerge in the Summer of 2020

Sam Siegel, News Editor June 18, 2020

When Scarsdale students received an email back in March regarding the closure of all schools in the district, there were intentions of returning to school a week and a half later. No one anticipated that...

Class-action lawsuit filed against the College Board over student disadvantages during AP tests.

Critiques of the College Board: Students Sue Over AP Exams

Alicia Xin and Katherine Shi June 15, 2020

Introduction On May 19, 2020, during the second week of 2020 AP testing, FairTest, an organization dedicated to keeping standardized testing fair, filed a lawsuit regarding the AP tests against the...

How are sports leagues around the world coming back?

When Are Sports Coming Back?

Ben Spitalny June 11, 2020

As parts of the country and the world begin to reopen, different sports leagues are also coming back.  Sports have recently returned to South Korea, where the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) has...

On May 30, 2020, SpaceX and NASA collaborated to launch US astronauts into space from US soil for the first time since 2011.

NASA and SpaceX Collaborate to “Relaunch” Missions from US Soil

Katherine Shi June 10, 2020

Amidst the protests and the fights for racial justice nationwide, the afternoon of Saturday, May 30, 2020, marked a significant day in US history; it was the first time since 2011 that astronauts were...

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