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The School Newspaper of Flint Hill School

The View

The School Newspaper of Flint Hill School

The View

Changes to the 2024-2025 School Year: Early End to the First Semester, No More Quarters

By Serene Zhu, Deputy Editor January 30, 2025

In the current 2024-2025 school year, the Flint Hill Upper School has seen some major changes to the semester schedule. Specifically, the first semester ended before winter break, and there are no longer...

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The Senioritis Epidemic

By Grace Semko, Editor in Chief January 30, 2025

We’ve all heard the term before: “Oh, she’s a second-semester senior - she must have senioritis.” But what even is this fictitious virus? What does it entail? And should it be considered an actual...

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The New Phone Policy

By Oren Staniorski, Section Editor January 30, 2025

A topic of discussion sweeping the nation in recent years, including inside Flint Hill, has been the topic of phones in schools. Some empirical studies support the idea that banning phones in schools is...

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Is Valentine’s Day All That Bad?

By Kostya Orlova, Managing Editor January 30, 2025

Now that Christmas and New Years have come and gone, those looking ahead in their calendars are met with the next major celebration of the year: Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately, for most Americans, the...

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Flint Hill’s Open Mic

By Kostya Orlova, Deputy Editor December 19, 2024

One of the most lasting impressions of Flint Hill that many incoming freshmen get on Revisit Day after they’ve received their letters of acceptance to the school is undoubtedly the unique school tradition...

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New Year’s Resolutions

By Lauren Fairchild, Deputy Editor December 19, 2024

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow” - Albert Einstein.   What are New Year's resolutions? It is believed that this tradition started about 4,000 years ago with the...

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The Controversy of “Powderpuff”

By Lauren Fairchild, Deputy Editor November 7, 2024

Flag football. A friendly and competitive game that both men and women play. A couple of weeks ago, Flint Hill held its annual junior vs. senior Flag Football game. This yearly tradition is a deeply loved...

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The School Discussion Surrounding Food Lines

The School Discussion Surrounding Food Lines

By Caroline Lloyd, Editor In-Chief October 3, 2024

The food at Flint Hill is always a buzzing topic throughout the halls, but throughout the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, something has been different. Rather than students talking about the food...

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Spirit Week a Husky Success

Spirit Week a Husky Success

By Serene Zhu, Section Editor October 3, 2024

Flint Hill’s ‘Gloco’ Homecoming was held the night of Saturday, September 28th, making the prior week Homecoming-spirit-week. To celebrate the leadup to Gloco, each day was assigned an optional dress...

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Interview with Jasmine Coates: What Happened to the Yearbook Club?

Interview with Jasmine Coates: What Happened to the Yearbook Club?

By Arti Marzban, Deputy Editor October 3, 2024

The cancellation of the Yearbook Club at Flint Hill puzzled many students, especially those who had invested time and effort into its success. To gain more insight into what led to its end, I sat down...

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The Future of Flint Hill’s Phone Policy

The Future of Flint Hill’s Phone Policy

By Serene Zhu, Section Editor September 18, 2024

On July 9, Virginia’s “bell to bell” cell phone policy was issued by Governor Glenn Youngkin through Executive Order 33. Starting this school year, the policy states that public school students’...

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New AI Blockage: Crucial? Or Detrimental?

By Lauren Fairchild, Deputy Editor September 18, 2024

Starting around the fall of 2022, AI technology made a huge breakthrough with the mainstream adoption of ChatGPT, an online AI research platform. At first, the public was fascinated with the tool's seemingly...

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