“I felt like I was on Zoom for hours, and I was missing in-person interaction and meeting new people, which I was really excited about,” freshman Shamsheer Sing...
Editors' note: While most public dialogue surrounding the Palo Alto Unified School District’s handling of Title IX cases by survivors has been negative, those w...
Spread six feet apart, volunteers serve food behind plastic partitions, forming an assembly line. Josh Selo, director of West Valley Community Services, says th...
“IREMEMBER last year [in] my Japanese class we had to do this thing where, in Japanese, we write a question for students to answer,” said senior Cody Hmelar, co-president of Palo Alto High School’s Asian American Student Union. “Two people had written in Japanese: ‘Have you eaten dog?’ Looking back on that experience now, I was not aware of how culturally rooted that kind of sentiment was, and that it was offensive.”As early as elementary school, Palo Alto Unified School District’s Asian America
Students shuffle around divided desks surrounded by plastic and open up their laptops to log onto yet another Zoom call. Sitting secluded in a corner of the roo...
Senior Finn Hadly walks through the empty quad as he makes his way to the band room where he finds his assigned seat safely located six feet away from the rest ...
Standing at the top of the Capitol building steps, President Joe Biden places his left hand on his family’s bible and raises his right hand, preparing to take t...
Maia Johnsson awoke to her mother running into her room, eyes wide with shock as she frantically told the Palo Alto High School junior that “our government is u...
Depressed. Anxious. Zombie-like shells of what they once were. That is how a mother of two Palo Alto Unified School District secondary students described her ow...
Every morning after waking up, Rachel takes a whiff of her favorite essential oil, Blue Tansy, in hopes that she might have regained her sense of smell. Rachel,...
