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by Nina Mariotti With the way news travels so quickly, almost everyone has heard about the incident revolving around Ms. Lippolis, a social studies teacher here at Branford High School. During one of her freshman classes, Lippolis held some kind of cooking knife in front of her students and made a joke about something bad happening to them if they didn’t do their homework.
Mrs. Craig has made new use of the after Christmas clearance sales, but what use is tinsel to a Precalc class? The class had created a HUMAN UNIT CIRCLE; a unit circle is basically a circle split by different degrees to create right triangles. They used this arrangement of Christmas left overs to review their material for the midterm and practice working out different problems. This was only one of different
by Vinny Roca You may have noticed that there have been some changes to the lights in the commons and on senior balcony. Since the construction of the commons incandescent bulbs have been wasting energy, inefficiently lighting the common, but recently these light have been replaced with energy efficient LED lights. So why the sudden change? Mr. Panagoulias responded by saying that the, “The change
by Nina Mariotti Since 2006, high schools have been offering online classes. This yea is Branford High School’s first year participating in the Virtual High School program. 40 students from Branford were piloted to take classes in VHS. So far, the program has been running smoothly. In fact, the board of education is so pleased with the success of the program that they’re hoping to
by Vinny Roca You may have noticed the firefighters going around the schools for the past few weeks and wondered what they are doing at our school. The reason was that our fire alarm system was down and useless during the past weeks so firefighters stood guard in our hallways, protecting us, while at the same time receiving hefty overtime dollars. The reason for the
by Vinny Roca News Editor The 2011 school year is a new beginning in terms of communication between home and school. For the first time parents and students will have access to the grade books of teachers, allowing for constant knowledge of items such as grades, attendance and upcoming assignments. Having access to these constant updates in grades, once only known by teachers, is stirring
by Marisa Kaplita When you’re a child all you want to do is grow up and be a big kid, a teenager, a driver, a college student, an adult, and so on. Where ever you are in life, all you want to do is grow up, but then somewhere along the way, somewhere in the high school years, all you want to be is a
by Marisa Kaplita As much as any Branford student says they hate being here and wished they could go to a different school, they can’t deny that going to Branford High does have its advantages. One of the coolest advantages by far is we are so close to Yale and therefore are presented with a variety of different exchange students each year whose parents came
by Sidney Mao Our BHS community’s art students have worked long and hard before and during the December break to complete their submissions for the Scholastic Arts Competition. This is an art (and writing) competition designed to encourage the spirit of the arts in students across the United States. Students submit their best high quality pieces of art from different mediums including pencil drawings,
by Marisa Kaplita Electives are everyone’s favorite part of the day, because its gives everyone a chance to relax from classes and work on something fun or artsy. And this past month the Jewelry Making Class had an opportunity to go and do something a little extra. They, along with the guidance of the lovely Mrs. Donna Roy, took a trip up to New
