The "Case by Case" Issue
January 20, 2010
Latin Takes a Stance Against Capitol Attacks
January 15, 2021
Latin broke its silence regarding the President’s attempts to contest election results last Friday when it hosted an Upper School gathering to address the insurrection at the Capitol. School leaders did not hesitate to condemn the violence, racism, and antisemitism that took place at Capitol Hill before splitting the 176 student attendees into breakout rooms to process the events. But why did it take a breach of the Capitol for Latin to speak to this highly contested election?
Four Student Government Reforms That Might Actually Do Something
January 15, 2021
Student Government has been aimless and ineffectual, an institution with the mysterious notoriety of the Honor Council but which holds the same amount of real-world power as Latin’s Model UN. The inefficiency is, primarily, no fault of the well-meaning and driven people who lead Student Government, but its very structure, which often tends toward symbolism and rarely brings about meaningful change.
Latin says no to test-optional admissions
January 15, 2021
An increasing number of colleges transitioned to a test-optional format in response to the coronavirus pandemic, yet Latin, along with many other high schools in the Chicago area, didn’t follow suit.
New Hybrid Schedule Raises Equity Concerns
January 15, 2021
Latin’s Upper School reopened its doors on January 11, once again raising questions about how the school can best promote equity within a hybrid learning model.
Latin Community Members Among First to Receive Vaccine
January 15, 2021
With the development and approval of the COVID-19 vaccine, frontline workers, as well as senior citizens, have already started getting vaccinated. Many parents in the Latin community who are a part of these groups have recently been vaccinated. In receiving the vaccine—either that produced by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna—these individuals joined the 3.1% of Americans and 2.9% of Illinoisans who had been vaccinated as of Wednesday.
The New Year nears, Latin students reflect on the positives of COVID-19
January 15, 2021
Wow. When it comes down to it, the punishment for marijuana is more harsh at Latin than in the real world. Whereas alcohol is merely brushed off. Hypothetically speaking, if a student, or anyone for that matter, is caught with a small amount of pot in Chicago the chances are the officer will take it away from the person, or if the person is under 18, take the person home and inform their parents of what happened. Nothing, usually, long term on their record. But, expulsion is not erased. Yet, if someone under the age of 21 is caught with alcohol, they will be going to court the next morning. In world full of real issues, you’d think Latin’s “liberal” mind set would reflect their judgment for creating rules of equal or lesser punishment than what we might face out of school.
I know we all want drugs and alcohol out of school, but honestly? If drugs and alcohol cannot be kept out of a prison, what’s going to make a high school any easier? We’ve seen what the War on Drugs has brought us: billions of wasted dollars and ruined lives. The number of users haven’t gone down, the number of users at Latin hasn’t gone down either, nothing has changed, only the methods in which students go about doing it.