While students at Poly are expected to meet strict deadlines for their work, teachers are often not held to the same standards. Teachers demand that students abide by clear due dates. When students turn...
In this comic, our spud learns about Marx's "central thesis" in a history class and feels inspired. She takes her friend to a protest and laments the ailments of a capitalist society. However, she is later...
After four crucial years of high school, students gain a greater sense of independence and hopefully graduate as freethinking young adults. However, while many teens are familiar with basic historical...
We all know you’re going to be gumless and lungless if you keep doing Zyns and vapes, but aside from health consequences, nicotine’s social and academic implications seem to be a major benefit for...
Sophomores begin concentrating on chemistry as their first opportunity to study a single scientific discipline in depth. As a foundational science, chemistry demands considerable mental effort and thinking...
What if one of the simplest ways schools could fight climate change is already in our hands? The average dry-erase marker lasts only about two weeks. In just 10 business days, a small, plastic object...
Everyone learns differently, and therefore, accommodations are necessary to give students with learning disabilities the same chance to succeed as their peers. Accommodations such as extra time for timed...
As students reach high school and classes get more challenging, many teens tend to quit the instruments they once played.
While young children are often encouraged to play music, this emphasis does...
For those who attended Poly in eighth grade, you likely remember the highly coveted “lower-school block.” To fill in those who didn’t, the lower-school block gave eighth-grade students the opportunity...
Through this comic, I wanted to express what I (and many teenagers) feel when reading the news or observing current events. Each day often brings more bad news: AI replacing jobs, heightened political...
While programs like PolyGlobal frequently push students to “think globally” our history curriculum doesn’t give us the education to do so. Currently, Perspectives on Modern World History, the sophomore...
I think I speak for everyone when I say the feeling when you sit down for a test – hand shaking and sweating, brain scattered, clock ticking – is one of the worst feelings. Test anxiety is a force...
