From Immigration to Assimilation
As debates over weighted grades, middle school renaming and a cluster of other concerns rippled through the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) in recent years, an increasingly influential group — Chines...
Coming to a Consensus on Consent
Introduction
If you stop and ask 20 strangers to define “consent,” you will hear a variety of answers. If you stop and ask 20 students who have all attended the same consent assemblies to define the term, you w...
Bridging The Achievement Gap
PAUSD is the number one school district in California according to Niche, 24/7 Wall St. and countless other acclaimed organizations. It boasts of sky-high graduation rates, impressive standardized test scores a...
Investigating the bell schedule kerfuffle
Despite all the upheaval last school year, with dual resignations by the District Superintendent Max McGee and Paly Principal Kim Diorio, one thing seemed assured: Paly would have a new, redesigned bell schedul...
Turning Over a New Leaf
Introduction
The only constant is change. In the recent months at Paly, this statement has fully applied.
The end of last school year was met with a sudden goodbye to an unprecedented number of administrative...
The Campanile’s Annual Post-Paly Plans 2018
Fullscreen map here (recommended).
International Schools
Name
Plans Beyond High School
Charlotte Brownell
The University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
Jasper Chang
New York Universi...
Shedding Light on Student Homelessness
Due to the sensitive nature of the topic, The Campanile changed the names of student sources.
Misconceptions
When the final bell rings, signalling the end of a long school day, many students flock to the bike c...
YouTube Will Never Be The Same (Not Clickbait): Logan Paul’s Suicide Forest Video Brings Problems To Light
The Antics of Logan Paul
Yo, are you alive?” infamous YouTuber Logan Paul shouts at a dangling dead body in a video published on Dec. 31 depicting Paul exploring Aokigahara, a Japanese forest famous for suicid...
Juvenile Justice
Backstory
They were smoking in the car, and his friend began speeding on the highway. A police officer tried to pull them over, but his friend decided to outrun the cop. It didn’t end well. The pas...
Caught in the Crosshairs
Intro
Apr. 16, 2007 — 32 killed at Virginia Tech University. Dec. 14, 2012 — 27 killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Dec. 2, 2015 — 14 killed in San Bernardino, Calif. June 12, 2016 — 49 killed in Pulse Nig...