One afternoon after school, I called a friend to work on our homework together. Through my phone, I could hear Debussy’s Clair de Lune playing faintly in the background. The music helps him focus, but that wasn’t the case for…
A $1.18 million federal forgivable loan has allowed Country Day to maintain its payroll and buy or rent COVID-19-related safety items that helped the school bring students back to campus. Country Day’s loan was forgiven and paid in full by…
Senior Sarina Rye won gold for her solo violin performance of “Meditation from Thaís” at the 2020 Golden Empire Music Festival. That was her favorite piece at the time. “It’s always stuck in my head,” Rye said, “and I have…
On Dec. 11, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved emergency use authorization of the Pfizer vaccine. The same approval was granted for the Moderna vaccine on Dec. 18. Both manufacturers have reported their vaccine trials to have success rates…
On Tuesdays and Thursdays after school, freshman Eliana Robinson rushes to do her homework before 5 p.m. so she has time to eat dinner before going to karate practice. Robinson is training for her first degree black belt. She attends…
After the start of the quarantine in March, Country Day’s 15 international students were faced with a decision. They could stay in Sacramento to wait out the pandemic without their families, or they could go home to their families and…
Country Day will resume in-person teaching when the fall semester begins on Sept. 1 — though with a modified system. According to head of school Lee Thomsen’s email to families on June 12, students will be organized into cohorts to…
Jamie Pedersen, a psychiatric clinical counselor and the mother of junior Connor Pedersen, recently told a sad story about one of her patients, a high school senior. “It was her last year (in theater class), and the sets she designed…
