The Contribution of Social Media during COVID-19
With COVID-19 impacting our daily lives, it is certainly not an exaggeration to claim that the year 2020, so far, has been quite an unpredictable adventure. Many schools and businesses have been...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccine Making History
As 2020 came to an end, things seemed to turn around with the approval for a covid vaccine. Over the past 10 months, the coronavirus pandemic has flipped our world upside down; killing over a million...
View ArticleCresskill’s unprecedented snow day shakes up pandemic learning
COVID-19 has caused many hardships and taught us how to change our old habits into anew. A lot of struggles came from how our school routine clashed with social distancing requirements. As a result,...
View ArticleOne Year (and more) Later…
The once busy streets packed with life were now empty. The streets that once contained people pushing and fighting were now filled with trash bags and flying papers. There was nothing. Shops were...
View Article3 Manual Hobbies that You Should Begin to Help Cope with 2021
It’s 11:15 PM on a Saturday night, and I just arrived home from tennis practice. To be honest, that might’ve been the most exhausting two hours of my life. I am grateful to play tennis, since it is one...
View ArticleWill we have a COVID-free summer?
It has been 495 days since lockdowns began in the United States. As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes widely available across the world, people wonder if this summer would be a much needed COVID-free...
View ArticleTesting Terror: Reauthorization of the PARCC In NJ
On September 8, 2021, the New Jersey State Board of Education adopted new graduation requirements for classes 2023-2025. ELA and Mathematics requirements were replaced pursuant to an amended Consent...
View ArticleHow Omicron Stole Christmas
On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization declared that the variant of COVID, B.1.1.529, more commonly referred to as Omicron, is a variant to be concerned about. While there is currently not...
View ArticleWhy Snow Days are Needed Now More than Ever
Yesterday, Cresskill Public Schools announced that on Friday, January 7th students and staff would “transition to remote learning after consultation with local health officials.” Middle-High School...
View ArticleWe’re Still Standing: A Flooded Year with the Music Department
In the last week of August 2021, Mr. Verderese was directing the regular band camp rehearsals, like Cresskill had always run, ready to start a new season after being locked away by COVID the past year....
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