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Community School of Davidson Student Life Leader, Leslie Bragg, stands behind her desk on Learning Street, the school’s busiest hall. It is an appropriate location since her job entails listening to the voices of students and serving as a bridge between students and administration with the help of the building community.

Spartan Questionnaire* (#12) featuring Leslie Bragg (*where we take a break from AP Style writing and get right to the good Q&A stuff with CSD people)

Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor
April 22, 2025
Often found at her desk on Learning Street, her job is to listen to the voices of CSD students and implement suggestions on an administrative level, to hear what works and what doesn’t.
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That’s a wrap. Subversive TV finales through the years run the gamut of being well-received and praised to widely panned.

Subversive TV finales that divide audiences

Subversive TV finales run the gamut from effective examples, like “The Prisoner” (1967) and “Angel” (1999), to finales that some people perceive to be anticlimactic or unsatisfying, like the endings of “Lost” (2004) and “How I Met Your Mother” (2005).
Liam Bradley, Features Editor, News Editor
April 21, 2025
After all, some students and teachers don’t mind it when finales throw them for a loop, so long as they believe the subversion is executed well, fits the show in question, and works on the basic fronts, like acting, direction, structure, etc.
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Community School of Davidson sophomore Katelyn Casiday (‘27), clearly in distress, sits alone and works in a school hallway surrounded by flashcards. With both scheduled and unplanned changes, it is often difficult to get into a steady rhythm.

Beware of burnout

Balancing workloads, maintaining mental health and navigating the school year (especially around school breaks and vacations) can be a challenge when next to nothing seems normal
Macy Balmat, Student Life Editor, Opinions Editor
April 7, 2025
The science behind burnout is fairly simple. Caused by stress, it is essentially a mental block against continuing your work.
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(Standing at center) As a member of the Duke Pep Band, CSD alum, Will Harris, celebrates on the baseline during the 2025 NCAA Men’s Elite 8 tournament game in New York City. (Photo courtesy of Megan Harris.)

CSD grad, Will Harris, trombones his way to the Final Four

Conner Shelton and Brandon Amaya
April 3, 2025
When the buzzer sounded and Flagg and Knueppel celebrated Duke’s 85 - 65 win, Harris picked up his trombone and began playing Duke’s fight song. Flag and Knueppel had done their jobs, now it was time for Harris and the other members of the Duke Pep Band to provide the victory energy.
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Community School of Davidson Senior Assassin player Mia Kirsch holds her water gun which is decorated with care bears stickers and stars. In Senior Assassin, players use water guns to eliminate their targets.

Eliminated

Senior Assassin (Round 1) wraps up
Mia Kirsch, A & E Editor, Podcast Editor
April 2, 2025
Senior Assassin is a recent, school non-affiliated senior tradition, a phenomenon that is both making national headlines and is consuming a substantial amount of high school seniors’ time, energy and dedication.
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High school students are usually best seen in hoodies not ill-fitting suits. Dress codes are different at Model UN.

(HUMOR/SATIRE) Delegates, decisions and ill-fitting suits

Embracing the chaos (and hilarity) of a Model UN weekend
Evan Mulligan, News Editor, Staff Writer
March 26, 2025
Model UN is, in essence, an activity in which (in its original formulation) primarily high school students get together for the purpose of pretending to be delegates to the United Nations, a situation which is admittedly quite ridiculous on the surface but nevertheless is something in which hundreds of thousands of students take part just in the U.S. alone.
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It has to be spring sports season when bats, sticks, rackets, cleats and bags line the walls outside of Griffin Gym. CSD spring athletes are excited to get outdoors and compete at Spartan Park representing the school.

Spring Spartan athletes take it outdoors

Previewing CSD’s spring sports with hopes of wins, championships, spirit and camaraderie
Avery Nardone, Deputy Sports Editor, Staff Writer
March 25, 2025
As temperatures rise with the approaching spring months, so does Spartan enthusiasm for the upcoming season. Community School of Davidson’s 2025 spring sports offer a range of sports as athletes break out from winter’s indoor competitions and under the sun on the courts, fields, track and golf course. Spring sports are a great opportunity to form bonds, push physical boundaries and just get outside.
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Maw Maw and Paw Paw (mother and father to Community School of Davidson‘s founder and first executive Director, Joy Warner) brought energy and purpose to a now established school which grew from a napkin and hearts overflowing with love. (Photo courtesy of Joy Warner.)

Remembering Maw Maw: A heartfelt tribute to a CSD legend

CSD students share memories and lessons learned
Conner Shelton, Sports Editor, Podcast Editor
March 24, 2025
If you were to ask current and former students about their favorite Maw Maw memories, most would probably say it was being a "trash kid" in elementary and middle school.
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Local thrift stores like Goodwill have become filled with cheap fast fashion clothing from brands like SHEIN due to the fast microtrends that fade so quickly.

Chasing micro trends: purchasing and overconsumption

High school students are easily influenced by new fashion micro trends through social media.
Mia Kirsch, A & E Editor, Podcast Editor
March 23, 2025
The good news is that along with the recent trends of thrifting and buying second hand clothing comes the awareness of overconsumption, which will hopefully encourage people to stop consuming so much fast fashion.
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While reading the “Harry Potter” books brings one type of enjoyment and satisfaction, watching the series brings another. Balancing books and movies and how each interprets storylines is an ongoing bebate in high school. (CSD Journalism staff photo.)

Read a book or watch a movie, the choice is yours

Analyzing the pros and cons of words on a page or images on the screen and what students think
Jaelyn Nguyen, A & E Editor, Staff Writer
March 23, 2025
Which do you prefer? “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They are both fruit but taste completely different.” -Stephen King
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Community School of Davidson senior Julia Vecchiarello displays UNC Chapel Hill’s “Class of ‘29” Instagram page. She is considering attending UNC Chapel Hill in the fall, and is using the page to scope possible roommates and build friendships before even setting foot on campus.

Roommate roulette

Picking a roommate, often the first decision after being accepted to college, is one that could dictate the course of a freshman year.
Kate Saussele, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Features Editor
March 21, 2025
As high school seniors receive college admissions notifications and make acceptance decisions, they are then faced with choosing a roommate, a decision that could dictate the course of their freshman year. The process can be nerve-racking and stressful with the pressure of finding that perfect roommate almost blanketing the joy that comes with being accepted to a school.
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Community School of Davidson’s varsity women’s basketball coach, Matt Forrest, checks out one of the nearly 100 completed brackets hanging along the baseline of CSD‘s main gym. Picking winners and completing a bracket is a March ritual for both students and teachers.

More than college basketball, it’s 64-team madness once again

Two Spartan Sentinel sports staff members predict the 2025 NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament
Conner Shelton and Brandon Amaya
March 19, 2025
March is here and that can only mean one thing for sports lovers, March Madness is back and it will be one of the craziest tournaments anyone has seen in years. Let the madness begin.
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