Wednesday, March 12, 2014 by Sam Geils and Sam Estano At 2:15 p.m. students of Saratoga Springs High School were released early from school to ensure every student would arrive home safely. The road conditions today are the major issue for Saratogians making the commute home. “I think it’s smart of them to have students […]
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March 3, 2014 by Skyler Stanford Reading is required for students at Saratoga Springs High School. In a survey conducted with 100 ninth and tenth graders from Saratoga Springs High School more than 50% of the teens surveyed don’t like to read. Is it possible that the parents and teachers trying to establish a love
Survey: 42% of SSHS students don’t like book selections for class Read More »
February 26, 2014 by Will Murnan Business teacher John Grady has a good reason to be known as “The Godfather”. He began his post high school career at the University of Albany where he earned a degree in business and a minor in education. Although he wanted to pursue business, he decided to become a
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February 16, 2014 by Danielle Morrone Every Monday from 2:45 to 3:10 p.m., a group of students and a teacher meet in room D205 to share with each other their love of music and videos in an open and supportive environment. This small but dedicated group call themselves the Toga Beat Lab. Toga Beat Lab
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February 10, 2014 by Eli Fisher Several members of the Saratoga varsity hockey team had belongings, including cash and one player’s phone, stolen from the locker room during a home game against rival Shenendehowa on Thursday night. The Saratoga Springs police are currently investigating the incident, according to police Lt. Robert Jillson. Matt Klingbeil ’14
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February 10, 2014 by Martha Mastrianni In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free black man living and working in Saratoga Springs, was tricked and captured by slave traders. He was sold into slavery in Louisiana, where he worked at various plantations. After twelve years and multiple attempts to escape, Northup finally got word to his family,
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February 6, 2014 by Christine Akiki Over the month of October, students in Mrs. Gordon’s statistics classes researched rare diseases and shared the information they found with each other. Many students knew or were related to someone who had the rare disease they had researched. One student researcher said her disease topic had a personal
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is the first part of a series by Caleb Cohen on the Common Core State Standards. January 21, 2013 by Caleb Cohen The national standardization of our education system is an idea that has sparked much debate in recent years. The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a nationwide program to
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December 24, 2013 by Sam Geils, Sammie Clemmey, and Emma Norris Due to their inability to live on their own, elderly Americans often live in assisted living retirement homes. Although this is not a problem of all elders, it does affect a large part of the senior community. While assisted living is a common choice
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December 11, 2013 by Connor Losey A simple five question quiz of Saratoga High School teachers shows that teachers might have to go back to school. Teachers, whose names will remain anonymous, were asked one question for each core subject and one current events question; answers to all questions are taught in the high school.
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November 24, 2013 by Eli Fisher For students in in Kurt Borchardt’s Digital Electronics classes, “the dog ate my homework” is no longer a common excuse. Instead, they’re left with “I left my notes at home.” Borchardt is one of a handful of high school teachers across the nation, including Saratoga Springs, that have implemented
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October 23, 2013 by Eli Fisher “It is probably human nature to take your home town for granted and, if you are young and venturesome, or even old and venturesome, to be more interested in places where you are not than in the place where you are, but sometimes I think Saratoga Springs has more
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October 21, 2013 by Martha Mastrianni For the past three school years, Saratoga Springs High School has been offering Distance Learning classes in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Distance Learning provides students with the opportunity to study a new language, even though there are no Chinese or Japanese teachers here at Saratoga Springs High School. Until
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