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Coronavirus impacts standardized testing

Coronavirus impacts standardized testing

Priyanka Anand and Sunny Li May 29, 2020

With the cancellation of standardized testing in spring 2020 because of COVID-19, the College Board and ACT rescheduled their standardized tests for later dates in the summer and fall with plans for administering...

NBA faces challenges due to COVID-19

NBA faces challenges due to COVID-19

Ethan Lee, Writer May 29, 2020

Although the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs originally planned to kick off on April 18, fans were stuck at home without their favorite sport on television due to the nationwide shelter-in-place...

Positivity behind the pandemic

Positivity behind the pandemic

Sharlene Chen and Emma Cionca May 27, 2020

A series of positive side effects has emerged from the menacing shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. Although people are understandably consumed by fear and uncertainty, it is important to take time to...

College commitments during corona

College commitments during corona

Medha Upadhyay, Features Editor May 27, 2020

The Class of 2020 has lost our prom, our senior game, our graduation, our picnics, our ditch day. We’ve put on a brave face and let it go. As everything around the world has ground to a halt, we are...

Student-run Keystone organization allows for virtual tutoring and mentoring

Shamita Gurusu and Teresa Arisawa May 27, 2020

With educational institutions shutting down across the nation due to COVID-19 and nearly half a semester’s worth of content to cover, many students are struggling to keep up with their education and...

The impact on student-athletes due to COVID-19

The impact on student-athletes due to COVID-19

Elliu Huang, Managing Editor May 27, 2020

Lynbrook’s spring sports teams started off the 2020 season with high hopes and positive mindsets until the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools across California, effectively cancelling all spring sporting...

Despite the difficulties of teaching online, teachers now have more time to spend with their family.

Teaching from home: a new reality for teachers

Diana Kohr and Pranav Mishra May 27, 2020

For centuries, the traditional classroom has remained virtually unchanged: desks and chairs, pens and notebooks, teachers and students. The onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, has radically changed...

School closure has wiped many traditional senior activities off the calendar, including an in-person graduation.

Senior graduation goes virtual

Kaylin Li and Stella Huang May 25, 2020

Normally, seniors would spend the last week of school learning how to walk on beat in line with the others, practicing for their procession across the football field. They would prepare themselves for...

Unity in the face of the coronavirus

Unity in the face of the coronavirus

Kaylin Li, Web Editor May 25, 2020

It is undeniable that these are trying times. Many aspects of our lives are being tested in extreme ways for the first time, from our healthcare system to our motivation to do homework. Despite misinformation...

Senators Kelly Loeffler and Richard Burr used their political offices to their benefits before the pandemic’s effects had fully materialized.

Senators’ selling of stocks stirs controversy

Katie Chen and Bennie Chang May 25, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has impacted billions of individuals around the globe and widened the disparity between the privileged and the disadvantaged. Before the pandemic’s effects had fully materialized...

FUHSD forms task force to address COVID-19 challenges

FUHSD forms task force to address COVID-19 challenges

Audrey Wong and Youqi Huang May 25, 2020

For the past couple of months, the PTSA, teachers union, teacher department heads and student representatives have been working to address issues resulting from COVID-19 as part of a task force created...

COVID dreaming: Where do we go from here?

COVID dreaming: Where do we go from here?

Nicole Ong, Editors-in-Chief May 25, 2020

“This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.” – “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot For Lynbrook students, the...