Staff editorials
Features
2026-2027 Student Union Endorsements
Endorsements for the 2026-2027 Student Union.
|| 2025-2026Features
Red Light, Green Light: Our Thoughts on the DOE’s New AI Guidelines
The Spectator's editorial piece on the DOE's new AI guidelines.
|| 2025-2026Features
Imagining InterSING!
The Stuyvesant Spectator's editorial piece for issue 11, volume 116.
|| 2025-2026Features
The Spectator's Wishlist for Zohran Mamdani
The Spectator's Wishlist for Zohran Mamdani
|| 2025-2026Features
Cats, Crafts, and Maths: Ms. Tormo
By Iman Nawaz
Art Appreciation and Drafting teacher Isabel Tormo shares the passions that fuel her life and delves into her many interests.
|| 2025-2026Features
The G&T Program: Needed or Not?
Despite its controversial nature, this proposal is not new. The G&T program has been subject to criticism from parents and politicians alike since its inception. Since then, it has undergone various changes, but the inequalities that plague the program remain.
|| 2025-2026News
Make Immigrants Welcome Again
[I]mmigrants build our country and continue to grow our economy and our nation.
|| 2025-2026Features
The Torchbearer for All Things NHD: Mr. Moore
APUSH and AP European History teacher Mordecai Moore reflects on his favorite NHD projects and his admiration for Ulysses S. Grant
|| 2024-2025Opinions
Closing Comments 2025
Closing Comments for editorial board members from the class of 2025.
|| 2024-2025News
Jump Scare!: Teacher Halloween Costume Suggestions
The Editorial Board suggests teacher costumes for Halloween 2023 (no explanation necessary!).
|| 2023-2024Opinions
We Give MP1 Number Grades a “U” for Unsatisfactory
The administration recently switched marking period one grades from numerical grades to letter grades, potentially causing more harm than good to the student body.
|| 2023-2024Opinions
Stuyvesant’s Graduation Requirements: Crucial or Trivial to Our Education?
The Editorial Board offers two opposing perspectives on Stuyvesant’s niche graduation requirements.
|| 2023-2024Opinions
June 7, 2023: Judgment Day
On Wednesday, June 7, the skies turned dark orange and the world began to end for the second time in three years—it was finals week, and Zeus was furious.
|| 2022-2023Opinions
“Eat a Meal in Silence”: How Homeroom’s Mental Health Activities Fail To Address Student Stress
The Spectator delves into how homeroom’s mental health activities fail to address student stress.
|| 2022-2023
Features
Finals on Regents Week: Is it the Best Option?
Students and faculty discuss the benefits of hosting finals on regents week. Art/Photo request: Student stressed about upcoming exams
|| 2025-2026Opinions
Specializing in a Specialized High School
The pressure to specialize in a certain field at Stuyvesant discourages students from the exploration high school is designed for.
|| December 2022Opinions
Do Better, Stuyvesant
Addressing the lack of communication about changes recently made by the administration.
|| December 2022Opinions
What The Editorial Board is Thankful For
In honor of Thanksgiving, the Editorial Board has compiled a list of all the things they’re thankful for at Stuyvesant.
|| December 2022Opinions
What to Believe: Shelter-In or Fire “Drill”?
Addressing the importance of communication and transparency from the administration regarding safety protocols and threats to the Stuyvesant body’s safety.
|| November 2022Opinions
Teach, Don’t Prep; Learn, Don’t Study
Teaching to the test reduces students’ motivation to learn because it puts the class into the context of the test, and a class curriculum that is not centered around an exam allows for a more rewarding learning experience.
|| May 2022Opinions
To Mask or not to Mask?
By Ava Quarles, Levi Simon, Oliver Hollmann
Following the lifting of the mask mandate, Stuyvesant has seen little change—but why?
|| March 2022Opinions
Looking Into "The Letter"
While many of the criticisms mentioned in “The Letter” were targeted toward individuals, they brought to light the lack of transparency surrounding the role of the SU and its election process, an issue that must be addressed immediately.
|| March 2022Opinions
Keep Our Clubs
Extracurricular activities are important, and requiring a faculty advisor to be present at every club meeting is unnecessary and and only harms the sense of community at Stuyvesant.
|| February 2022Features
The Torchbearer for All Things NHD: Mr. Moore
APUSH and AP European History teacher Mordecai Moore reflects on his favorite NHD projects and his admiration for Ulysses S. Grant
|| 2024-2025Opinions
June 7, 2023: Judgment Day
On Wednesday, June 7, the skies turned dark orange and the world began to end for the second time in three years—it was finals week, and Zeus was furious.
|| 2022-2023Opinions
“Eat a Meal in Silence”: How Homeroom’s Mental Health Activities Fail To Address Student Stress
The Spectator delves into how homeroom’s mental health activities fail to address student stress.
|| 2022-2023Opinions
Teach, Don’t Prep; Learn, Don’t Study
Teaching to the test reduces students’ motivation to learn because it puts the class into the context of the test, and a class curriculum that is not centered around an exam allows for a more rewarding learning experience.
|| May 2022Features
2026-2027 Student Union Endorsements
Endorsements for the 2026-2027 Student Union.
|| 2025-2026
Features
Chasing the Spark: Ms. Shamazov
By Alice Frank
Liliya Shamazov, Stuyvesant’s beloved chorus teacher, reflects on what brought her to teaching Stuy choir and what goes into creating the chorus magic we know and love.
|| 2024-2025Features
Red Light, Green Light: Our Thoughts on the DOE’s New AI Guidelines
The Spectator's editorial piece on the DOE's new AI guidelines.
|| 2025-2026Opinions
To Mask or not to Mask?
By Ava Quarles, Levi Simon, Oliver Hollmann
Following the lifting of the mask mandate, Stuyvesant has seen little change—but why?
|| March 2022Features
Imagining InterSING!
The Stuyvesant Spectator's editorial piece for issue 11, volume 116.
|| 2025-2026Opinions
Looking Into "The Letter"
While many of the criticisms mentioned in “The Letter” were targeted toward individuals, they brought to light the lack of transparency surrounding the role of the SU and its election process, an issue that must be addressed immediately.
|| March 2022Features
Finals on Regents Week: Is it the Best Option?
Students and faculty discuss the benefits of hosting finals on regents week. Art/Photo request: Student stressed about upcoming exams
|| 2025-2026Opinions
Breaking the Break Cycle
By
Both students and teachers face immense pressure to juggle Stuyvesant’s rigorous curriculum, but vacations must remain entirely work-free so that we can relax and recharge our brains, maximizing productivity upon our return.
|| February 2023Opinions
Keep Our Clubs
Extracurricular activities are important, and requiring a faculty advisor to be present at every club meeting is unnecessary and and only harms the sense of community at Stuyvesant.
|| February 2022Opinions
Closing Comments 2025
Closing Comments for editorial board members from the class of 2025.
|| 2024-2025Opinions
Closing Comments
The seniors of the Editorial Board say goodbye, as this is their last issue with The Spectator.
|| January 2023Opinions
Specializing in a Specialized High School
The pressure to specialize in a certain field at Stuyvesant discourages students from the exploration high school is designed for.
|| December 2022Opinions
Do Better, Stuyvesant
Addressing the lack of communication about changes recently made by the administration.
|| December 2022Features
The Spectator's Wishlist for Zohran Mamdani
The Spectator's Wishlist for Zohran Mamdani
|| 2025-2026Opinions
What The Editorial Board is Thankful For
In honor of Thanksgiving, the Editorial Board has compiled a list of all the things they’re thankful for at Stuyvesant.
|| December 2022Opinions
Thank You, and You, and You!
In honor of the festivities, here are a few things that The Spectator’s Editorial Board is thankful for:
|| November 2021Opinions
What to Believe: Shelter-In or Fire “Drill”?
Addressing the importance of communication and transparency from the administration regarding safety protocols and threats to the Stuyvesant body’s safety.
|| November 2022Features
Cats, Crafts, and Maths: Ms. Tormo
By Iman Nawaz
Art Appreciation and Drafting teacher Isabel Tormo shares the passions that fuel her life and delves into her many interests.
|| 2025-2026Features
The G&T Program: Needed or Not?
Despite its controversial nature, this proposal is not new. The G&T program has been subject to criticism from parents and politicians alike since its inception. Since then, it has undergone various changes, but the inequalities that plague the program remain.
|| 2025-2026
Science
Tylenol: Fever Fixer or Cause of Autism?
By Ryan Yang
While Trump’s comments have reignited public fears, researchers stress that the evidence linking Tylenol and autism remains uncertain.
|| 2025-2026News
Jump Scare!: Teacher Halloween Costume Suggestions
The Editorial Board suggests teacher costumes for Halloween 2023 (no explanation necessary!).
|| 2023-2024Opinions
We Give MP1 Number Grades a “U” for Unsatisfactory
The administration recently switched marking period one grades from numerical grades to letter grades, potentially causing more harm than good to the student body.
|| 2023-2024News
Make Immigrants Welcome Again
[I]mmigrants build our country and continue to grow our economy and our nation.
|| 2025-2026