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The comforting smell of buttered popcorn floats through the air as you sink back into your red leather reclining seat, leaning back as the lights dim low and the screen glows with promise. Get ready to go back to theaters this summer because as the weather heats up, the movies are getting hot. This summer,...
It is not uncommon at Staples to see students as young as sophomores getting tutoring for standardized testing. Test culture has changed significantly in the past 20 years. Particularly after the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, which mandated testing in all 50 states. Latin teacher Perry Tavenner explains his personal...
The last time Staples had a normal midterm week was in January 2020, before the pandemic drastically changed the routine of high schoolers across the world. Since then, midterm exams have been either canceled or modified due to not wanting to add extra anxiety to students during a troubling period. Well, for all students, that...
Earlier this month, Connecticut teachers were mistakenly notified by the state of Connecticut to book Covid-19 vaccine appointments despite not being eligible to get vaccinated until around March 1, as they are front-line essential workers who are to be vaccinated in the later stages of phase 1b. Kristin Leahy, a teacher in the science department,...