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By Sushant Kunwar
Branford Public Schools should maintain the mask mandate past Feb. 28; it’s still too early to regress from taking measures against the spread of Covid-19. It’s understandable that people want to move on from the pandemic, but it’s an unfortunate reality of our time.
By Tyler Jarvis
It’s an appropriate time to end the mask mandate in Branford schools. This will not prohibit those who are inclined to wear a mask from wearing one. Instead, it simply allows for students to exercise their right to not wear one if they so please.
By Katelyn Robbins The SAT is a time-consuming test of a student’s academic skill used for admission to colleges. This four hour test – used to estimate our reading and math skill level – tends to make or break college decisions for many students. Since the COVID pandemic started, a lot of colleges stopped required the SAT. Before the pandemic, the SAT would sometimes be
By Grahm Reynolds Recently, Branford High School has implemented a new program — headed by the National Honor Society and Environmental Club — to recycle paper that is thrown into blue recycle bins around the school. Previously, this paper was just thrown out with the rest of the trash, leading it to rot in a landfill. “Paper consistently makes up the highest percentage of landfilled
By Grahm Reynolds
Last school year was a year of ups and downs. At first, remote learning was a massive adjustment for both students and faculty. Yet by the spring, there were glimmers of hope. All students were able to be back in school by April, and seniors had their prom, class trip, and an in-person graduation at the end of the year — previously thought impossible.
How necessary are mental health days? During these last few years, issues of mental health have emerged. The new school calendar reduces three full days to half days. What do you think of this change?
COVID-19 has not stopped the Student Council from holding this year’s Homecoming Dance which will take place under a tent in the parking lot.
The lack of a class officer election for this year’s senior class creates an unfair and unjust situation.
Not holding elections this year helped maintain continuity in student leadership during this unprecedented time.
By Aditya Rajpurohit and Sushant Kunwar Branford High School held its first pep rally in over one and a half years last month. Various fall sports teams took to the football field to introduce themselves and encourage members of the BHS community to show their support in upcoming games. “As a community, our BHS students have overcome a variety of obstacles in the past year
