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2013 Shaker graduates Jack Nemeth and Andrew Rossman hold posters at the annual Chief Wahoo protest. Protesters compared the Chief Wahoo logo to any other bigoted mascot, saying that it promotes racist values and furthers disrespect of Native cultures. “I went there [to the protest] because I wanted to show my disapproval because we had the Holocaust, and [our] people were dehumanized by these caricatures,” said Nemeth. “And this propaganda and this Chief Wahoo is the same thing because in America we took their land--[the land of] people who didnt really have choice of us coming there.”

Drunken Insults, Racial Slurs . . . It must be Opening Day in Cleveland

July 4, 2020
According to Ohio Department of Educations Associate Director of Media Relations John Charlton, the new system used to track graduation rates measures each student individually, rather than a class as a whole. Shakers graduation rate went up six percentage points, a change attributed to the states new measurment method and practices within the district.

Graduation Rates Grow 6 Percent, Reflecting New ODE Standards

April 9, 2015
Proposed Stipend Program Could Help Students Do More

Proposed Stipend Program Could Help Students Do More

March 29, 2015
Middle School Principal David Glasner speaks to parents in the middle school library after he was hired last spring. One of Glasners first initiatives as principal has been instituting a new, standardized grading policy.

Didn’t Do It? Don’t Worry, You Have Another Chance … and Another

January 10, 2015

Shaker Crew to Race in Place for Foster Care Children

April 11, 2014

LGBT Groups Debate Same-Sex Marriage Date

March 17, 2014

New Policy Mandates Security Guards Stand All Day

December 16, 2013

This Yom Kippur, It’s Football or Faith for Some

September 10, 2013

AP Students Must Retake Tests

May 17, 2013

Arpit Agrawal, 2015 Vice President

May 8, 2013

Narayan Sundararajan, 2015 Secretary

May 7, 2013

3/15 My Crutches Are No Longer Separate Entities

March 16, 2013

Octopi Tentacles Find Shaker’s Clocks

March 11, 2013

2/26 Security Guard Happenings

March 4, 2013

2/19 The Crutch Can

March 4, 2013

2/22 The Pity Card

March 4, 2013

2/20 The Social Lives of the Inanimate

February 21, 2013

2/11 Old Age

February 21, 2013

2/12 Backhanded Compliments

February 21, 2013

Remembering the House Before Daleford

January 15, 2013

Missing a Ponytail and Finding my own

December 7, 2012

Cattle and Horses and Chickens, Oh My!

October 5, 2012

IB Brings World Language to Elementary Schools, but Social Studies Pays the Price

March 20, 2012

Rubbernecking Won’t Make it Change

November 21, 2011
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