October 2020 Volume 21 Issue 1
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Terrific Teachers Join Our Community By Lauren Grauer
Face masks, classroom cleanings, and a distance of at least 6 feet at all times.These are just some of the precautions all teachers must take, so imagine starting a new teaching job during this time. The Pulse interviewed new science teacher Ms. Tantillo and new mathematics teacher Mr. Scher to welcome them to the community and learn more about them.
Harvey and feel that they have made the transition great.” Ms. Tantillo and Mr. Scher have different career backgrounds. Ms. Tantillo taught at Soundview Preparatory for 12 years. Soundview was located in Yorktown Heights, New York and unfortunately closed in the 2019-2020 school year.
The Pulse asked an array of At Soundview, Ms. Tantillo questions to the two teachers about their taught chemistry, physics, and forenlife, interests, and experience starting sics. Chemistry is Ms. Tantillo’s favorat a new school during COVID-19. The ite subject, but she also loves physics. two have an extremely positive outlook. Her favorite college professor was a physics professor. When asked if Harvey made the Ms. Tantillo has transition easy, Ms. taken her love for science Tantillo answered, Ms. Tantillo. Photo courtesy of Sam Alexander. outside of the classroom and “Yes! I don’t know combined it with her love what Harvey was like for social media. She has a but after six years, he found himself not before, so I don’t feel science Instagram account enjoying his work in this field. So, he the change as much with the handle @mstantillo. and a friend started tutoring students, as returning teachers Students, go check it out! and Mr. Scher also helped his friend and students do.” Mr. coach a wrestling team. Scher stated, “Go The Pulse learned that ing to school during Mr. Scher did not originally Mr. Scher spent some time COVID-19 is hard plan on becoming a mathemattutoring high school students to prepare no matter what. I am ics teacher. Originally, Mr. them for the SAT and ACT. After this Mr. Scher. Photo courtesy of Scher was working in finance, very happy to be at Emma Galgano.
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The Woman, The Justice, The Icon While we celebrate 100 years of women’s rights, we mourn Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Ginsburg was a Supreme Court Justice known for fighting gender discrimination. Ginsburg died on Sept. 18, 2020 at the age of 87 years old from complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer.
By Emma Galgano
Ginsburg soon became one of the biggest influences on the Supreme Court. According to the NPR, on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states by a 5-4 majority vote.
According to Biography.com, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born into a family in Brooklyn, New York. Ginsburg’s mother was a garment worker, and her father was a merchant. Her household valued education. Ginsburg earned her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1954. That same year, she married Martin Ginsburg. A few years later, they had their first child named Jane.
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As a new mother and law student at Harvard, Ginsburg experienced an extreme amount of gender discrimination. NBC Boston states, “Her class at Harvard Law had 552 men but just eight other women. In a story that’s become part of Ginsburg’s legend, the school’s then-dean asked those women, at a dinner party, how they justified taking a place that would have gone to a man.”
Ginsburg’s husband accepted
ish Supreme Court justice. Ginsburg represented the moderate-liberal bloc, presenting a strong voice in favor of gender equality, the rights of workers, and the separation of church and state.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivering a speech. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
a job at a New York firm. To join her husband in New York City, Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she was elected to the school’s law review. She then went on to teach students about equality rights and how the law was gender blind. The Washington Post states that in 1980, Ginsburg was appointed to the U.S Appeals for the District of Columbia. Then, in 1983, she was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton as the first female Jew-
When Ginsburg was asked, “Since you were made a Supreme Court judge, how do you feel women’s equality and women’s rights have changed?” Ginsburg responded with, “When I became a Supreme Court justice, there were six women in the Senate, and now there are 20. I was the second woman on the Supreme Court, and when Justice O’Connor left, I was all alone. Now I have two colleagues, Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Alena Kagan. People ask me, ‘but when do you think there will be enough?’ I say (laughs), well, when there are nine! And people are aghast. We’ve had nine men for most of the country’s history, and no one thought that… there was anything wrong with that.”
The Woman, The Justice...cont. on page 6.