By Annie Nesbitt ‘13, Contributor. This year saw a dramatic increase in interest in choir, enough that a second class, Choir Lab, is being offered during B bell, in addition to the traditional A Bell Choir. The two choirs consist of 17 students, including two new sophmores and eight freshmen.

By Sally Portman, ‘13, Contributor. Scheduling season has arrived and students were asked to make decisions on classes for next year. One phrase stuck in the minds of many CCDS students after this year’s scheduling assembly: while many students take all 5 honors and AP classes yearly, very few take all 5 honors and AP classes well. While this is a common warning during the scheduling process, are students really taking it to heart, or is CCDS just a school of overachievers?

Despite the recent economic downturn, many teachers enjoyed thrilling summer vacations in locales as exotic as Mexico or the Broadwell House. Some of you students may be wondering how teachers can afford to take a vacation in such difficult financial times, but when I talked to science teacher Brock Miller, he said, “How can we afford not to? You kids are terrors! I spend every single second counting down to the end of the bell, every bell counting down to the end of the day, and every day counting down to the end of the year when I can go on vacation and build sandcastles and never have to talk to students!” Then he chased me out of his office with a meter stick.