2025-26 LFA Fall Sports Athletic Preview
Boys Golf: The boys golf team is looking to capture their third consecutive ISL championship. After losing five seniors following last season the team is much younger than previous years.…
Indresh Chandel
New Faculty of the 2025-2026 School Year
Ted Anderson will be teaching science at LFA. He has been teaching high school students for five years, most recently at a private school in downtown Chicago. However, Anderson has…
The New Normal: Math Department “Skill Checks”
In the new school year, the math department has introduced a major change in its assessment approach: weekly “Skill Checks.” These short pop quizzes are designed to reinforce recently taught…
LFA Makes an A+ a 98: The Issues With Raising the Bar
In recent years, LFA has standardized its grading system, ensuring for the 2023–24 school year that the score required for an A in one class is the same as in…
Working and School: What I’ve Learned as a Hostess
It’s 10:17pm on a Thursday night, the man at table fourteen needs silverware and Uncle Dave at the bar is still waiting for his takeout. All the cutlery is in…
Why Windy City Smokeout Triumphs Over Other Music Festivals
Among the blazing heat of the summer, the weather was not the only thing sparking up conversation; Windy City Smokeout blew away festival attendees with flaming hot barbecue, beloved country…
Taking in the Study Abroad Experience in Barcelona
Over the summer, I studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain with CIEE Global Navigators: a program that takes high school and college students abroad. Studying Spanish Language and Culture, our group…
Spectator Summer at the University of Chicago
This summer, I participated in the course Human Rights: Foundation Concepts, Global Challenges, in the three-week Immersion residential program at the University of Chicago. In this course, we explored questions…
The Signatures that Killed: How Parents are Enabling Mass Shootings
On a Tuesday morning in Highland Park, the sound of drums and laughter from the Fourth of July Parade was replaced by screams and gunfire. Amid the chaos, few knew…
Spectator Summer: School of the New York Times
Kayla Moore ’26 Over the summer holiday, I travelled to New York City (NYC) to learn more about The New York Times and what it takes to be a journalist…