Social media education should be incorporated into curriculum Leila Khan February 10, 2019 Opinion As the day-to-day lives of younger generations become more enmeshed with technology, teenagers across the nation are constantly bombarded with new variants of social media, each offering unique ways to pull the...
AP English Language teachers should align learning material Alyssa Leong December 16, 2018 Opinion If one were to get a group of Advanced Placement English Language (AP Lang) students together and ask what they are learning, one would receive a variety of answers. Somewould say they read passages in class an...
Students should explore more test prep options Maya Rathore December 15, 2018 Opinion In today’s vicious dog-eat-dog academic environment, college admissions are more competitive than ever. As acceptance rates drop and more and more competent students apply, the workload of the average student s...
Paly should offer more help to transfer students Emily Asher December 15, 2018 Opinion The beginning of the school year is an exciting time — it is when students reunite with friends and meet the classmates and teachers they will be spending the rest of the year with. However, students who don’t ...
Class material ought to resemble tests more closely Sophia Moore December 14, 2018 Opinion Students are no strangers to how terrifying it is to be handed a test on test day and scan through the pages only to realize all the problems are significantly more difficult than the material usually covered i...
Teachers should be mindful of all political views Rebekah Limb December 14, 2018 Opinion In today’s extremely polarized political climate, America has developed an interestingly hostile attitude when it comes to expressing one’s views about certain controversial issues, such as abortion or immigra...
Alternative forms of testing strategies should be implemented Rebekah Limb December 12, 2018 Opinion Every student is aware of the grim feeling that sweeps over every couple weeks when that dreaded end-of-unit test approaches. Frantically solving practice problems, memorizing the study guide and hearing others...
Schools need to provide feminine products in bathrooms Lara Nakamura December 12, 2018 Opinion The conversation about menstrual cycles, or periods, is often just that, a period at the end of a sentence. The discussion of something natural and normal that women go through once a month for the majority of ...
Teachers should allow Wikipedia to be used as reliable source Henry Queen November 18, 2018 Opinion Wikipedia, or “he who must not be named” to most teachers, has been a controversial topic in the classroom ever since its inception in the early 2000s. Students love its simplicity and to-the-point approach of...
Teachers should give absence passes to students Johnny Yang November 17, 2018 Opinion Most students at Paly have to spend considerable time studying for their tests the night before, sometimes up to five hours, to go through all the material. This significantly impacts students’ schedules becaus...
