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Thought: Should celebrities share their personal lives, opinions, and feuds on social media? Nic Staley: Imagine you and your friend are having a debate and things end badly. You two just cannot see eye to eye, and resentment starts to build. Now, imagine that your friend goes to social media and posts twenty tweets claiming … Read More “Thoughts on Thoughts #3” »
Episcopal strives to nurture students in mind, body, and spirit so as to prepare them for their futures in what is often referred to as “the real world.” Teachers and parents are known to berate students with comments of “It won’t be like this once you get to college” and “You’ll be in for a … Read More “Staff Editorial: Current events should be an integral part of EA curricula” »
Episcopal strives to nurture students in mind, body, and spirit so as to prepare them for their futures in what is often referred to as “the real world.” Teachers and parents are known to berate students with comments of “It won’t be like this once you get to college” and “You’ll be in for a … Read More “Staff Editorial: Current events should be an integral part of EA curricula” »
Five years after graduating from Episcopal Academy, George Reginald Bishop Jr. ‘40 wrote a letter to the Episcopal Headmaster, Greville Halsam, to update him on his life after school. It was 1945 and he was stationed in Luxembourg in the midst of WWII. “It is a foggy, Saturday morning here on the Third Army’s western … Read More “Staff Editorial: Keeping it in perspective” »
Emiola Enakhimion ‘24 As class sizes have steadily climbed at EA, many students and teachers feel that the academy’s renowned individualized education has decreased, and learning has become less personal and harder to manage. To combat this, EA should aim to reduce class sizes in the Upper School. Due to their smaller student population, private … Read More “Larger class sizes impede student Learning” »
Thought: Are time travel movies good or is it a boring old hack? Nic Staley ‘22: Time travel is one of Hollywood’s biggest cop outs when it comes to movie making. It is up there with the classic “Oh no all my memories are gone” plot line, which in my opinion, is overused as well. … Read More “Thoughts on Thoughts #2” »
Young Republicans We, the leaders and members of Young Republicans, would like the EA student body to have a more clear understanding of the current goals and activities of our group. We feel that sometimes our beliefs are misconstrued or invalidated, so we would like to clarify our organization’s goals and intentions, as well as … Read More “A letter to the Episcopal Academy Community from the Young Republicans” »
It’s the holiday season. You’re bundled up in blankets with your family, sitting by a warm fire, the aromas of your forthcoming feast floating throughout the house. You’re happy, you’re peaceful, you’re excited to open your gifts. Family that you haven’t seen in ages is in town, you’re catching up and making merry. Then you … Read More “Staff editorial: Students deserve a true winter break” »
Ishani Khanna ‘25 Providing support to students and adopting new ways to address their mental health is of the utmost importance to school administrations, and EA is no exception. We have all learned from personal experience that stress is difficult to manage. One way to tackle stress is the frequent presence of therapy dogs on … Read More “Therapy dog campus visits should be more frequent” »
Ishani Khanna ‘25 Providing support to students and adopting new ways to address their mental health is of the utmost importance to school administrations, and EA is no exception. We have all learned from personal experience that stress is difficult to manage. One way to tackle stress is the frequent presence of therapy dogs on … Read More “Therapy dog campus visits should be more frequent” »
James Austin ’22 | Nic Staley ’22 Thought: When is the correct time to start listening to Christmas music and to put up Christmas decorations? James Austin: You would have to be a moron, a buffoon, or a calendar-oblivious, socially-inept human being to believe in anything other than what I’m about to say. There are … Read More “Thoughts on Thoughts #1” »
Anika Agarwal ‘23 Many students may have noticed that the tampon and pad dispensers in the girls’ restrooms have been consistently empty. Although Episcopal Academy’s mission statement is “challenging and nurturing Mind, Body, and Spirit,” EA fails to comprehensively support the “body” aspect for a large portion of the student population. Given that periods are … Read More “Why are there no period products in the Restrooms?” »