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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

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The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

May Staff Editorial

May Staff Editorial

Lilah Johnson, Co-Editor-in-Chief May 28, 2026

School is a place to learn, but it is also a place where we build community. Recent school sanctioned events have been seeing increasingly low participation, with the SIAC-organized Spring Fling dance...

Wolstencroft’s choices about the emotions in the graphics were intentional. She said, “I tried to make the expressions neutral because I wanted to show the struggle of
assessments, but not overdo it with the suffering.”

Final Projects Beat Exams

Evie Chow, Copy Editor May 28, 2026

While the anticipation of summer rolls around during the end of the year, so does finals season. While every student has to deal with some form of finals, not all finals are created equal. For freshmen,...

May Hot Potato

May Hot Potato

Camila Pardo, Columnist May 28, 2026

What the garden teaches us: Spring has a way of making everything feel alive again. Trees regain their color, flowers begin to bloom, people start walking outside, windows begin to roll down, and suddenly...

Many students took AP exams in the gym.

Standardized Tests Need to Become Relevant

Lilah Johnson, Co-Editor-in-Chief May 28, 2026

Studying for the ACT was a painful experience. Partially because I couldn’t remember anything I’d learned in Algebra II or Geometry, but mainly because I couldn’t connect it to anything. Even in...

Throughout the 20th century, the United States has been involved in many Latin American nations, sometimes even with overlapping timelines.

Interventionism Hinders World

Pedro Silva, Contributing Writer May 28, 2026

Latino Immigrants do not travel to the border for no reason. They are pushed there by U.S. policies and operations that create crises that did not begin with them, yet still land on them the hardest....

April Staff Editorial

April Staff Editorial

Lilly Tarakji, Student Life Editor May 4, 2026

Field trips often seem to follow the same routine: We board a bus, arrive at a museum or performance, and within minutes, attention drifts as conversations with friends take over, and whatever we were...

April Hot Potato

April Hot Potato

Camila Pardo, Columnist May 4, 2026

I didn’t really know what death meant until I lost someone close to me. Before that, it was always something that happened to other people, in other places, at a distance that was too far from my reach,...

Madhav’s Market Memo (April)

Madhav Kumar, Columnist May 4, 2026

21 miles of saltwater between Iran and Oman shouldn't decide what Americans pay at the pump. But for the last six weeks, it has.  Since the U.S.–Israel strikes on Iran in late February, daily transits...

Political arguments seem to break out in classrooms constantly, which leaves others to avoid any points of conflict.

Let’s Disagree About It

Ben Aviles, Co-Editor-in-Chief May 1, 2026

You don’t need me to tell you that we are polarized. That has been slammed into every American citizen from constant barrages of articles (including my own), books, and movies. But the media misses something...

Luca Osorio '28 studies for every test listening to his favorite artist 2slimey.

Headphone Wearers Secret Agenda

London Gilbert, Arts and Culture Editor March 13, 2026

In a world with so many wonders of music and intelligence to be conveyed, we have a wide selection of genres to choose from. Whether it’s music, podcasts, or videos, people may use headphones to escape...

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