With approximately 50 different clubs for everything from K-pop to magic to tiddlywinks, IHS offers one of the most comprehensive student activities programs in the…
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Decarcerate Tompkins County Stops Local Jail Expansion
Decarcerate Tompkins won a major victory in Ithaca when the Center for Governmental Research (CGR) decided this past July that it did not need to…
The Status of Chromebook Privacy
The world has entered the digital age, an era in which technology is everything. Representative of this paradigm shift is IHS’s transition to Chromebook usage.…
An Overview of the 2017–18 ICSD Budget
On May 17, 2017, all residents of Tompkins County had the chance to vote in the elections for their respective school districts. Candidates for the…
TSA Succeeds at National Conference
On June 20, seventeen members of IHS’s Technology Student Association (TSA) traveled to Orlando, Florida to compete at the national conference. This conference—which involved almost…
Democratic Congressional Primary Race Gets an Early Start
Tom Reed, the US Representative for New York’s 23rd Congressional District which encompasses Ithaca, has won by comfortable margins in multiple elections in a row.…
Cornell Receives $2.5 Million for Cybersecurity
Even when the primary means of digital communication was email, parents warned, “Don’t click on any emails that look suspicious,” fearing the harm that could…
IHS Students Attend D.C. Climate March
On April 29, 2017, the IHS Green Team and a few volunteers, myself included, trekked down to Washington, D.C. to lend our voices and signs…
A Further Look Into Ithaca’s Sanctuary City Status
Last February, Ithaca’s City Council unanimously voted to make Ithaca a sanctuary city, a popular move in a community so supportive of immigrants. This…
ICSD Creates Mobile App
When ICSD launched its new mobile app, I decided to download this recent effort by ICSD to explore a new medium to interact with the…
For the past decade, the Ithaca Board of Education has been pursuing a specific goal regarding equity: to “eliminate class and race as predictors of…
An Update on Teacher Evaluations
Every year, teachers are evaluated two or three times on their lesson preparation, classroom environment, quality of instruction, and fulfillment of professional responsibilities. New York…
A Clarification of ICSD Internet Policy
Ever since students were given free Chromebooks at the start of the 2015–16 school year, there have been questions regarding new practices, such as what…
IHS students who take music classes work for hours a week, practicing and participating in extracurricular activities that directly involve musical skills. Many spend free…
Upcoming STEM Exhibition Planned to Have More Extreme STEM for High Schoolers
Recently, several teachers and an IPEI member have been planning a STEM fair to take place at IHS after school on May 15. The fair…
IHS Teacher Proves Riemann Hypothesis
In a sudden revelation, a serendipitous brainchild of fate, a disciplinary intersection of theory and application, what will henceforth be known as “the tossup that…
Instead of simply using the IHS Tattler to guard his partes privadas from the greasy chain of a moto, whatever that is, area English teacher…
Local Boy Qualifies for USAMO
On April 1, it was revealed that Casey Wetherbee ’17 had qualified for the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) to be held on…
On February 24, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer left representatives from numerous news outlets hungering for flustered gum-chewing, stuttering, and half-hearted justifications for golfing…
Literary Editor Frantically Writes “Haiku of the Month” Hours Before Deadline
Expletives were heard echoing through the deserted hallways of E-building as Tattler Literary Editor Ema Cornbread ’17 realized that no one had submitted a haiku…
IHS Administrators Ban Hot Food in The Cafeteria
After outraged parents threatened to sue over their child burning their tongue in IHS’s cafeteria, the administration has taken swift action to protect students. Their…
Controversy Over Board of Education Executive Sessions
ICSD is a massive entity, serving over 6,000 students at a dozen schools. Unlike the executive branch of the federal government, however, the decisions that…
Ithaca Residents Gather at Congressional Town Hall
It wasn’t even 6:00 a.m. and the temperature was a bit under 15 degrees Fahrenheit, with the wind making it even worse. Hundreds of Ithaca…
I.T. Phone Home
WikiLeaks has done it yet again. On Tuesday, March 3, WikiLeaks published a ground-breaking trove of classified CIA documents drawn from a sub-organization called the…
IHS Excels at the UNAR Model UN Conference
On March 10 and 11, IHS Model UN attended the United Nations Association of Rochester (UNAR) conference at St. John Fisher College. Model UN is…
Quite a Buzz at the Spelling Bee
The Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI)’s 19th Annual Adult Spelling Bee was held on Sunday, March 5. The event featured 32 spelling teams who went…
IHS Brain Team Continues Winning Streak
On January 28, IHS’s quizbowl team, the Brain Team, traveled to Rutgers University for HFT, their first tournament of 2017. After going undefeated in 10…