Shaila Baumbach
Staff reporter
After three years of Covid with masks and strict rules at Gleneagle, the Edge newspaper is back with its first fall edition since 2019. It took a long time because when Covid started, people didn’t know how strong it as and how much impact it has on the students or teachers.
Wearing masks in hallways and classrooms and taking distance between each other was a big challenge for many years which is now much easier after the covid rules were shut down. That means we could come closer to each other again and work on the actual newspaper.
According to the Edge article, wrote on 6 September 2022, called “Looking back at school during Covid 19“, written by Benedict Huszar, were in the last years many students that struggled back home and many exchange students that didn’t return. In the article he also said, “Getting into meetings with our teachers wasn’t too hard but teachers figuring out how they wanted to format lessons and assignments did take more than a few tries.”
Scott Findley, English teacher and Edge teacher supervisor talked about what happened in the last years at Gleneagle when Covid was there and how it felt to have a challenge with writing the newspaper. He told that 2 years ago there was the return to school, people did not know what was safe and what not so they couldn’t do the newspaper at all. Most things were online, also last year when they resumed the semester system, our community also didn’t know if they should do a newspaper because they wanted a safe distance.
He also mentioned: “It was also hard because student couldn’t interview other teachers or students, the rule with the distance had to be strictly observed for the safety and it was also frustrating to come up with other different types of assignments because it wasn’t really feeling like doing an actual newspaper.”
Mr. Findley at the end said, “It’s great to have a newspaper soon in the hand, of course it’s so much more work but when the students just would do it online, it would be less work, but it also would be less reward.”
Olivia Cao, grade 12, responded: “The time of covid was boring, many club activities were shut down last year, also assignments were more difficult because you mostly couldn’t ask the teacher questions because all was online. When we couldn’t have a newspaper, not ever student was updated for the newest news around Gleneagle, so I prefer the newspaper physically than read it online.”
The Halloween Edition is a perfect comeback, and it can be special for many students that also celebrated the spirit week that occurred last week. Halloween had been celebrated at Gleneagle this year with many different events. But Gleneagle is also looking forward to having more Edge newspapers soon.