With only two days before California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to face a politically contentious recall election, many Palo Altans continue to support Newsom...
“In life, we hide the parts of ourselves we don’t want the world to see. We lock them away. We tell them no. We banish them. But here, we don’t.”
These are t...
Palo Alto High School sophomore Abdullah Naviad recalls kneeling on a patterned prayer rug with six feet of space surrounding him, reciting his prayers in the s...
Desks without dividers. Faces without masks. School without Zoom. An unknown world to in-person Palo Alto High School students. These images have been turned fr...
“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...
