Many people have only experienced Bram Stoker’s Dracula through uninteresting lectures and book reports (perhaps with the help of their good friend, SparkNotes). Many more people have never experienced the novel at all, and are only familiar with it through its numerous adaptations and its lengthy,...

In the spring, SPS students, teachers, and parents were asked to participate in the Thought Exchange. In this online survey, school community members were asked what the district needs to stop, start, or continue doing. From there, participants could look through the responses other people shared and...

Dear Teachers and Members of the School Committee, For 36 weeks, students spend an average of seven hours a day, five days a week in school, which is 75% of a calendar year. We go to school for the majority of our childhood while trying to maintain that balance between school and their lives. Unfortunately,...

Dear Society,  The vicious cycle of hate and anger spiraling through our communities, isolating people, invalidating feelings, and tearing down others for personal gain, needs to end.  You place strict restrictions on how people may act, look, and what they may do in life. From the moment they...

A few years ago, Scituate closed the doors of the old Gates Middle School for the last time.  Constructed in 1916, the building, which replaced the "Little Red Schoolhouse" as the town high school, was not originally wired for electricity. In 2012, it was clear that the middle school was no longer a...