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Talk about excellence! On Wednesday, May 18, students and faculty alike set aside their academic responsibilities to participate in and run KO’s first Cup Day, similar to a field day. Cup Day saw the student body compete as members of the four houses into which they were divided earlier in the school year in a […]
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“The Catcher in the Rye.” “The Last Night of the World.” “The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever.” Fledgling orators in the sophomore class read these texts and more as part of this year’s Speaker’s Forum, an annual event in which students compete to deliver interpretive reading performances, culminating in a final round where the top […]
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Tracy K. Smith, in her final speech as U.S. Poet Laureate, discussed at length the commodification of learning and language in today’s world. One target of her critique: student surveys. “Rate your professor,” she sarcastically yet thoughtfully intoned: “Did she make the material relatable and easily digestible, or did you have to work to learn […]
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Ask any KO student, parent, or faculty member – ask anyone with connections to high schoolers, really – and they will tell you in no uncertain terms of their conviction that the whole college admissions process is a rather miserable beast. There’s a couple of common complaints one hears: that the process has grown so cutthroat […]
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Think of a teacher you’ve had that has changed your life. It’s not a difficult thing to do – in big ways or small, practically every teacher you have studied under has imparted lessons that have defined what you know, what you’re passionate about, and even who you are as a thinker and as an […]
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Hufflepuff. Slytherin. Ravenclaw. Gryffindor. The fantastical houses of Harry Potter may seem strange and remote to the student body of a prep school in West Hartford, but, remarkably, Kingswood Oxford has a history of houses of its own. The Kingswood School in Bath, U.K., which served as the model for the American Kingswood, has used […]
Read MoreThe KO News scored big over the last two years while senior Keegan McMahon served as an associate editor and, this year, the Head Editor of sports. Keegan was initially motivated to join the paper both because of the opportunity it provided her to express her passion for sports and to break a gender barrier […]
Read MoreThe KO News bids farewell to co-Head Web Editor and senior Rin Sterling. Rin rose through the ranks of the online team in her two years at the paper, beginning as an associate web editor. As a member of the KO News’ online team, Rin was responsible for working with other departments to manage the […]
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It practically goes without saying at this point that we are currently living through an extraordinary period in world history. Every few days, it seems, some new, unprecedented, polarizing event unfolds. And it can be difficult to handle that. A common refrain that I hear from my classmates (and myself) is that we want things […]
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At around 3:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, a friend and I trepidatiously entered the East Granby Senior Center. Inside, we were greeted by an orderly yet purposeful flurry of activity: Voters anxiously waiting to have their identification examined and their address verified, greeters noting our presence while watching the rest of the precinct, the […]
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