September 19, 2022 by Ciara Meyer When Natalya Lakhtakia was a little girl, she spent most of her summers with her somewhat magical grandfather. She would sit in the garden and watch the hummingbirds bathe, relax in the cool shade under the lemon tree, and listen to the ocean breeze gently blow through the leaves. […]
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September 19, 2022 by Eliza Krackler For Tom King, it’s survival of the fittest. Life was always like that for him, and in his early days of prize-fighting, he wouldn’t have had it any other way. He used to live in a world of triumph and happiness. He always came home with a story to
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September 19, 2022 by Ciara Meyer I have officially spent 2167 days in the Saratoga Springs City School District. By the time I graduate it will be 2340 days. Unlike most students at Saratoga Springs High School, I had the opportunity to opt-out of this experience. My sister switched to private school during her 10th-grade
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September 19, 2022 by Aditi Singh Do you want to get involved in school, build up your extracurriculars for college applications, or just have fun and relax with people with similar interests? If so, you should look into the numerous clubs offered at SSHS! Here are just a few: Class of 2023, 2024, 2025, and
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August 24, 2022 by Journalism & Media Communications Block 2 Students Acting Out Link Acting Out is a mini-documentary created by the 2021-2022 Block 2 Journalism and Media Communications class. With reports of increasing behavioral issues in schools around the country, Block 2 students explored incidents of students “acting out” within SSHS’ school walls.
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August 24, 2022 by Journalism & Media Communications Block 4 Students Overachievers Link Overachievers is a mini-documentary created by the 2021-2022 Block 4 Journalism and Media Communications class. Block 4 students profiled three SSHS students–Abby Bundy (’23), Huck Patton (’22), and Maria Sablich (’22)—to discover what being a high achiever means to them, and learn
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For the final post of the 2021-2022 school year, The Lightning Rod remembers Billy Wardell and Daniel Weiss. The following stories were submitted by Billy and Daniel’s classmates.
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By Lizzie Sheehan The following is an argumentative essay written by Lizzie Sheehan, a current AP English Language and Composition student. What if I told you that the distribution that defines your future is skewed? The score that you work so hard for is determined using a scale composed of bias. Teachers throughout America
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By The Rock Crispy Chicken Sandwich: 9.5/10 I heard my peers celebrate when they checked the lunch calendar to find it was crispy chicken sandwich day. Their eager voices intrigued me. Was the sandwich really that special? I waited in line to get the meal and returned to my table. It looked like an average
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By Ciara Meyer The SSHS Student Guide to BOE Elections On May 17, many Saratoga Springs High School (SSHS) seniors will be casting their first ever ballots in the Board of Education (BOE) election. Local elections are not blessed with the same level of coverage as national ones, but they are still crucial in determining
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By The Rock The Lightning Rod is delighted to introduce a new cafeteria food review column to the publication. Here are the thoughts of our staff’s very own food analyst, The Rock: Chicken Nuggets: 8.5/10 The chicken nuggets imitate McDonalds’ taste with a school cafeteria texture. The outer layer was soggy, but I overlooked it.
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By Tori Igoe As the graduation season approaches, students of Saratoga Springs High School (SSHS) have learned they cannot decorate their graduation caps. Many students believe this rule is unfair. At SSHS we are taught everyone can be themselves, that we should not conform to the majority. Isn’t dressing completely alike going against what the
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After a week of voting, the polls for the Saratoga Springs High School Student Council race closed. Here are the results from the elections: Student Council President – Evan Griffiths Vice President – Poppy Shishik Secretary – Zoravar Jassal Treasurer – Grady Frazier Public Relations – Ava Mackenzie Board of Education Representatives – Ryan McPhee
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By Ciara Meyer It feels like just yesterday that I was sitting in my seventh-grade Home and Careers class. I had just spent a day on an assignment that required documenting every food I ate, entering each item into a software that informed me of my exact caloric intake. I had measured even the smallest
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