High school math teacher Patricia Jacobsen and biology teacher Kellie Whited wear wigs and tutus while screaming an off-key, customized version of “Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice, which playfully roasts the new Country Day graduates sitting on the lighted…
Whether your lunch has just been stolen by a mysterious thief or you’ve forgotten your water bottle at home, everyone has a day where they’re forced to stay hungry or thirsty. While there used to be a quick, simple solution…
As hungry students pile out of classes for their lunch break, some students stay behind for meetings or to ask teachers questions. When they finally exit their classrooms, ready to eat, some find their lunches have disappeared. That’s right, students…
It’s early in the morning after a Country Day basketball practice, and the players are sweaty, tired and ready to get changed. But instead of entering the locker room — which is now little more than a glorified storage room…
It used to be impossible to imagine high school at Country Day without the traditions that define it, such as the Ancil Hoffman Park trip, where high school students play a game of capture the flag in teams of red…
Climate change is the largest issue facing humanity. It’s easy to disregard its existence, or claim it’s not caused by humans, or fall into the trap of thinking that we can’t do anything about it. All of those are false….
It’s a sweltering hot day, and Country Day soccer players are sprinting around the field at the Cherry Island Sports Complex. The student athletes start with masks all on, but one by one, the rigorous exercise gets to them. Masks…
As of May 10, COVID-19 vaccines are now available to all high school students. It falls on Country Day, then, to decide how much to encourage students to be vaccinated by the next term. We think that the school should…
It’s an exciting time for space exploration. New startups like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have changed the way the space game works with commercialization and new innovations like reusable rockets. NASA has committed to return to…
Following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, social media and Big Tech companies responded by limiting accounts on their platforms that they considered dangerous. While this may not initially ring any alarm bells for some, it is…
