During the recent Community Conversation on Jewish identity, Director of Equity and Inclusion Dr. Rachel Myers announced the topic of the next, and final, Community Conversation of the year. As leaders of the Hispanic Latiné Forum (HLF), we had hoped Dr. Myers would say that the conversation would feature HispanicRead More

Photo Courtesy of Cassatt Boatwright/The Choate News I was first introduced to Choate when my older brother, Wesley Boatwright ’22, started applying to high schools. He had just come home from a long and tiring high school fair and threw a stack of boarding school brochures onto my lap. AlthoughRead More

Photo Courtesy of Peter DiNatale Last May, I became the owner of six baby ducklings. Like many others during the quarantine, I was searching for an escape from the emotional burden of the Covid-19 pandemic.  Around the start of that spring, my first instinct was to start a garden. But,Read More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News  On January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in one of the most visceral and tragic examples of the recent rise in domestic extremism. In the last year, there has been an increasing number of white supremacist groups and increased violenceRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News  Because Choate students live all over the world, one of the most common questions asked on the first day of classes or when meeting someone new is, “Where are you from?” For several years now, I’ve struggled to answer this question. I was bornRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News  We go into Choate thinking that we will leave feeling prepared for everything life throws at us. But, how much of the things we learn in school do we actually use in our daily lives? In an H&R Block survey, 84% of respondents saidRead More

Graphic by Yujin Kim/The Choate News  Over the past year, we have all experienced the unavoidable conversations about how seriously to take the pandemic — the ones where we decide whether or not we ought to skip the big spring break party in order to avoid spreading Covid-19 to ourRead More

During his 2020 election campaign, President Joe Biden promised to build a cabinet representative of America’s racial plurality. Upholding the promise, Biden’s administration deviated  greatly from past administrations, appointing women and ethnic minorities to positions that have long been held almost exclusively by white men. The Biden cabinet is nowRead More

In August of 1920, Congress ratified the 19th amendment, delivering voting rights to American women. This year’s Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, honors these accomplishments, more than a century later. Yet, for all the progress feminists have made around the world in the last century, recent years have beenRead More