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The Shakerite The award-winning Shaker Heights High School student news organization, covering senior pranks, the

With four print issues each school year, The Shakerite currently publishes most of its content online at www.shakerite.com. Opinions expressed in columns are those of their respective authors, and do not represent the views of The Shakerite, Shaker Heights High School or the Shaker Heights City School District. The editorial board comprises Chief Editors Nora Spadoni, Grace Lougheed, Zachary Nosan

chuk, and Lily Roth in addition to Opinion Editors Emily Montenegro and Hannah Kornblut. The editorial board’s editorials, called the “Rite Idea,” present the views of the editorial board; however, they may not reflect the opinion of The Shakerite’s entire staff. The board rules on ethical, staff-related and logistical issues within the paper. Learn more about The Shakerite here: www.shakerite.com/about/

For his Senior Project, Campus and City Editor Liam MacGilvray ('25) scanned every page of every print edition of The Sh...
06/08/2025

For his Senior Project, Campus and City Editor Liam MacGilvray ('25) scanned every page of every print edition of The Shakerite that exists in the newsroom morgue and at the Shaker Heights Public Library, created a spreadsheet to track the collection and his progress, and uploaded the scans and existing PDF page files to the Internet Archive, where you can now search editions as far back as 1929. Read Liam's account of his effort, which includes the archive link. Happy searching!

The Shakerite has kept a mostly complete archive of past print issues in our newsroom at the high school, going back to 1951. The Shaker Heights Public Library also keeps an archive, which goes all the way back to 1929. The 1929-1930 issues call themselves “Volume IV,” implying that this was the...

"Learning that the Shaker Theatre Arts Department would be absorbed into a generic 'Performing Arts Department' has been...
06/03/2025

"Learning that the Shaker Theatre Arts Department would be absorbed into a generic 'Performing Arts Department' has been a real gut-punch, to both myself and my students." In a Guest 'Rite, Shaker Theatre Arts Department Chairman Scott Sumerak contests the district's decision to merge high school's performing arts programs in an effort to save money.

Shaker Administrators and Board Members, To say that the last several days have been disheartening would be a gross understatement. Learning that the Shaker Theatre Arts Department would be absorbed into a generic “Performing Arts Department” has been a real gut-punch, to both myself and my stud...

“You see science differently, you see literature differently — and that foundation sets up Shaker graduates for success ...
05/29/2025

“You see science differently, you see literature differently — and that foundation sets up Shaker graduates for success in the future. What I fear is that this board is setting up Shaker schools for a death spiral.” Managing Editor Daniel Carroll has the latest on the question of Latin study in the Shaker schools.

Students, alumni and parents took to the administration building Tuesday morning to protest the district’s planned cuts to the Latin program. The district has tabled the decision to discontinue Latin instruction for sixth graders starting next year, which would change Latin teacher Joseph Barresi....

“Most students are just going to stay in German or Chinese or French or Spanish and won’t switch languages and won’t sto...
05/23/2025

“Most students are just going to stay in German or Chinese or French or Spanish and won’t switch languages and won’t stop their language at the high school." Daniel Carroll, Vijaya Sadler and Isabel Siegel collaborated to report on the district's second attempt to elminate Latin instruction.

The district plans to discontinue Latin instruction for sixth graders beginning next year. Joseph Barresi, the only Latin teacher at the high school, said that the district intends to keep Latin at the high school, but phase it out of the middle school. “So next year, there will be no Latin in the...

"I can lift them up all day and cheer them on. But to my students they see it as my job. When someone else says somethin...
05/06/2025

"I can lift them up all day and cheer them on. But to my students they see it as my job. When someone else says something, it’s special." Theatre Department students and staff learned of their five Dazzle Award nominations during a watch party April 29. Senior 'Rite Artist Dylan Smith, in his first published story, gathered their reactions for this report.

The high school fall musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” earned a record five Dazzle Award nominations April 29. The Dazzle Awards, which are presented through Playhouse Square, recognize high school theatre productions in Northeast Ohio. According to the Playhouse Square websit...

"We can’t be in all the places young people are. We kinda need them to come to the realization that they need to have ne...
04/30/2025

"We can’t be in all the places young people are. We kinda need them to come to the realization that they need to have news in their lives, and that’s an education issue." Press and law professionals addressed challenges to media access and First Amendment concerns during an April 16 League of Women Voters forum at the high school. Spotlight Editor Olivia Cavallo attended and filed this report.

Media and law professionals spoke about fostering trust in and engagement with news at a League of Women Voters forum April 16 in the high school’s small auditorium. The League of Women Voters is a national organization that works to protect voting rights through education, legal advocacy and part...

The incident involved current and former SHHS students – without these protections in place, it could have happened here...
04/18/2025

The incident involved current and former SHHS students – without these protections in place, it could have happened here. The emphasis should be, now more than ever, on fixing weak links in the system and improving consistency. Read the Editorial Board's latest 'Rite Idea.

The community of Shaker Heights was alarmed and distressed after 18-year-old Charles Shanklin was murdered in an act of gun violence at the Shaker Heights Main Library April 1. In the face of such a tragedy, the need for sufficient security measures has never been more apparent. In recent months, th...

“Immediate joy when I saw those dogs.” Shakerite editors compiled this report about therapy dogs that visited the high s...
04/17/2025

“Immediate joy when I saw those dogs.” Shakerite editors compiled this report about therapy dogs that visited the high school and IC after the April 1 shooting at the main library.

Therapy dogs are bringing joy and comfort to students since SHHS reopened April 3 following a fatal shooting at the main library. Therapy dogs from the Crisis Response Canines team, the Sit Means Sit Therapy Dog Training Program and University Hospitals have visited the high school and IC several ti...

“He understood that international students need more than just grammar rules, and I know I am not the only one who was h...
04/09/2025

“He understood that international students need more than just grammar rules, and I know I am not the only one who was helped this way.” Copy Chief Daniel Carroll attended the April 7 BOE meeting and reported on community comments about cuts to the district's English Language Learner staff.

International students, ELL teachers and parents called on the Board of Education during yesterday’s rescheduled meeting to restore three English Language Learner positions that have been cut. The April 1 meeting was rescheduled after a fatal shooting involving current and former SHHS students occ...

"We have some hurting people in our community right now, and we want to honor that and make sure that we're able to supp...
04/03/2025

"We have some hurting people in our community right now, and we want to honor that and make sure that we're able to support." Copy Editor Daniel Carroll and Campus and City Editor Liam MacGilvray filed this story about today's return to school. Spotlight Editor Olivia Cavallo contributed reporting.

Students returned to school a day after classes were canceled due to a fatal shooting involving a current and a former SHHS student. The shooting occurred around 4:30 p.m. in the Shaker Heights Main Library April 1. The victim, former student Charles Lee Shanklin, was taken to a hospital and died th...

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