Students Write Letters of Activism
June 11, 2020
In response to the most recent events related to the murder of George Floyd and other instances of police brutality, the Dial started a letter-writing campaign to express student opinion during these upsetting times. We contacted a few Dial reporters and students who were particularly vocal during the A...
New York Should Encourage All Voters to Vote by Mail
By The Editorial Board
June 4, 2020
On April 27, New York election officials made a historic decision to cancel the state's Democratic Presidential Primary due to the heightened health risk caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that has been sweeping the globe, and the fact that only one candidate, Joe Biden, remains in the race. This decis...
Editorial: A vision of the new normal on campus this fall
By Kami Lim, Opinion Editor
May 22, 2020
Political leaders, public health experts, and pundits discuss flattening the curve, social distancing, and contact tracing in all media forms. We are all well aware. Since we left school for early spring break after Tuesday, March 10th, we are now on the eleventh week of quarantine (as of May 19th)....
Why does the Upper School only have one black teacher?
April 1, 2020
It’s 2020, but only one black teacher sits on the Upper School faculty. For an institution that prides itself on diversity, this discrepancy is significant. But Hackley’s administration is quite conscious of this problem and is working diligently to resolve it. Mr. Steven Bileca, Assistant Head of...
Students and faculty debate how an open grade book will provide more transparency for the student body
By Hannah Ostfield, Senior Staff Writer
January 17, 2020
An open grade book may help students at first, but will it end up causing even more stress? After a month or school into the trimester, students await their progress reports, then a month later it’s their trimester report card, and then it’s finally their end of year grades. An open grade book c...
To give or not to give
By The Editorial Board
January 17, 2020
The editorial board argues for continuing the tradition of giving out sports jerseys, positing that the tradition encourages school spirit and attendance at games — although alterations to the tradition must be made to ensure the comfort of students Jersey giving, a long-standing tradition on the...
Teachers limit phone use in class
By Maya Miller, Staff Writer
December 10, 2019
Teachers and students often debate the phone ban that has been instituted in certain classes throughout the Upper School. In certain classes, students are asked to keep their phones in their backpacks or place them in front of the classroom in order to help them focus. Despite the fact that students...
Tech Free Tuesday encourages students to focus less on technology
By Yingshyan Ku
June 3, 2019
A group of students sit across from each other around one of Hackley’s round tables in the lunchroom in silence. Each student is preoccupied with their phone and too busy with the digital screens to converse with one another. This situation is exactly what Hackley administrators sought to avoid...
A hate symbol promotes conversation on campus; action must follow
By The Editorial Board
May 20, 2019
On Wednesday, March 13th, Upper School students received an email that stated that they were to report to the Johnson Center during their break period. The calling of the entire Upper School to a meeting with little notice was an unusual occurrence, and the halls were buzzing with rumors about the t...
Why I don’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance
By Oren Tirschwell, Guest Writer
April 12, 2019
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Thirty one simple words that every public school student knows in this country. Thirty-one simple words that I recited every morning from g...
Student-based scheduling limits course offerings
March 12, 2019
To the Dial Editorial Board, I read with great interest and enthusiasm two articles, entitled “Diversity vs. Decolonization” and “Students seek additional English department course offerings”, and would like to provide a few further comments to the student body so that, should they wish to...
English Department should develop additional course offerings
By The Editorial Board
February 5, 2019
In this issue of our ‘Portrait of a Student’ series, The Editorial Board is focusing on seniors and the stresses they manage. We spoke at length with Ella Zaslow about her experiences as a senior, finding that in having to create an English major for herself, she exemplified the challenging dynami...
