A newly formed advisory board will promote youth civic engagement and connect high school students in Sandwich to the Sandwich Board of Selectmen.
Sandwich High School senior Nico Gentile and faculty adviser Chris Tansey presented the idea of the Sandwich Youth Commission to the board of selectmen at its meeting on May 13.
In its current iteration, the commission will be composed of nine high school students of varying grade levels: five students from the town high school, two students from Cape Cod Academy, and two students from the Sturgis Charter schools. All of the involved students are Sandwich residents; this composition will be fluid depending on the number of interested students at each school.
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After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, summer school programs will reappear in some Cape school districts.
The need is great, according to school officials.
Testing shows that students have fallen behind in math and English language arts, Monomoy Regional School Superintendent Scott Carpenter said.
“It’s a lag nationwide,” he said.
Carpenter said Monomoy students probably have more of a leg up students in grades K-7 have been attending class in person full time this school year but last year’s emergency switch to remote learning in March for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year has taken its toll.
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OSTERVILLE – In the vaulted library at Cape Cod Academy, the only applause for President Joe Biden’s inaugural speech came from the audio accompanying a screen display.
The 18 students and several faculty members viewing the ceremonies remained silent during the introduction of Kamala Harris, the nation’s first Black and first South Asian and first woman vice president.
A pin could have been heard dropping for a poetry recitation by Amanda Gorman, at age 22 the youngest poet laureate in the nation’s history and an individual not much older than the teens watching the inauguration.
The silence wasn’t due to a lack of enthusiasm, a group of freshmen said as they left the library at the end of their study period.