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In her more than two decades of teaching, Mollie Hicok Parker has only ever taught at one school at a given time — until this year. Teaching seniors at Saratoga High on Red Days and freshmen at Los Gatos High on Blue Days means double the number of classrooms, new names and faces to learn […]

On Aug. 5, Bay Area news station KQED ran a segment alleging that Los Gatos High School’s El Gato newspaper’s current teacher adviser, Doug Garrett, prevented his student journalists from reporting on the school’s rape culture during the 2020-2021 school year.  Since June 2020, Los Gatos High School has been going through a #MeToo sexual […]

While almost all students are on campus and in their seats when the first-period bell rings this year, senior Noora Fayad is one of 16 in the district who have opted to continue with online education at home because of the pandemic.  Fayad and the others are enrolled in an online Independent Study (IS) program. […]

Freshman Aneri Shah scoured the science building for her biology class on the first day of school. She frantically compared passing room numbers with the campus map set as her lock screen —  a tip she had learned from an upperclassman.  Although she was anxious to get to class, Shah reveled in the energy among […]

As senior Kaylie Wong stood under the awning in front of the cafeteria waiting to start the Senior All Girls’ Dance practice recently, she worried that after a year and a half of completely virtual events, people wouldn’t show up. However, her worries began to ease as she saw over 50 girls stream in, armed […]

After working with assistant principal Matt Torrens as part of the Leadership class for the past three years, senior class president Apurva Chakravarthy felt a mixture of excitement and nervousness upon meeting his replacement, Kristen Cunningham. When meeting her for the first time during the summer over Zoom, Chakravarthy had no idea what to expect. […]

This year’s new bell schedule has resulted in many changes, including a later start time of 8:30 a.m., 90-minute periods, 30-minute lunches and 10-minute passing periods. Tutorials now only occur on Blue Days, with 14 tutorials dedicated to Advisory modules on topics such as consent and sexual harassment. But student and teacher reactions have not […]

As the cafeteria reopened this year at full capacity during the pandemic, new safety policies and procedures have been put in place. District cafeteria head Pam Carlino has introduced a system that has 12 cafeteria employees, not including herself, rotating between the  Saratoga and Los Gatos campuses. That way, if one cohort comes in contact […]

After entering the robotics room on a rainy day in December 2019, team members were unsurprised to see the pool of water that had collected in the middle of the floor. For years, leaky roofs, a lack of space and poor insulation, among other problems, were unfixed due to a lack of funding — until […]