Every year, graduating seniors on The Octagon write a final piece to say goodbye to Country Day. This is one of nine pieces by the class of ’22. The cluster around the laptop cart cleared enough for me to grab…
After a year and a half of online learning, SCDS kicked off the 2021-22 school year with the goal to stay in person. In order to safely do so, the school released a new set of COVID-19 guidelines. While most…
After more than a decade of teaching at Country Day, history teacher and college counselor Chris Kuipers is ready to move on to the next phase of his life in the Pacific Northwest. Alicia Perla will be taking over as…
Due to the constant switching between the hybrid and remote schedules this school year, teachers have had significantly less time with their students, leading them to make adjustments in their curriculum, such as cutting out content, using online resources, and…
On Jan. 19 the College Board announced it was scrapping the Scholastic Aptitude Test Subject Tests and the optional essay. The SAT Subject Tests are hour-long, multiple-choice tests scored on a 200 to 800 point scale. The number of questions…
As a child, senior Allie Bogetich always was surrounded by music, from Billy Joel to ACDC to Neil Diamond. So her interest in music came as no surprise. When she was a fourth-grader, Bogetich bet her older sister, Emme Bogetich,…
Fall high school trips were canceled last spring due to COVID-19. Usually, high school students go on their week-long trips in the first week of October. The freshmen go to San Francisco, sophomores to Greenhorn Ranch in Quincy and juniors…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the college experience. Everything from how students move into living situations to how they attend class to how they get food – everything is being done in a new way. As colleges begin their academic…
Country Day summer class teachers had to adjust their courses to fit the online learning format due to COVID-19. Students had to adjust too. Two high school summer class teachers, and senior Elijah Azar, recently reflected on their virtual learning…
