Surviving and Thriving: A Look Into Life After Lick
Every year, Lick-Wilmerding High School graduates a diverse body of students. These students — the alumni of LWHS — are thrust into the world beyond […]
Love Your Local Library: SFPL Reopens
Libraries in San Francisco have been slowly reopening, once again making their rich programming and essential resources accessible to all. Children, seniors and the houseless […]
“Angry Feminist”: Marginalizing Women and Their Beliefs
“The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women.” television evangelist, Pat Robertson, said in a 1992 fundraising letter, “It is about a socialist, […]
How Much Homework is Too Much Homework?
Lick-Wilmerding High School has a homework policy in place intended to guide teachers in the amount of work they can assign their students based on […]
“We Need Another Uprising”: Youth, Environmentalism, and Nuclear Weapons
The chance of nuclear war is higher than one may think — Stanford risk analysis expert Martin Hellman even goes as far as to say […]
Wildlife Returns to SF: Do Not Feed the Coyotes
Throughout quarantine, we heard lively stories of wildlife reclaiming spaces that humans had overtaken: A herd of goats trot through the town of Llandudno, North […]
LWHS Athletes Now Have to Win Varsity Spots
This year, all Lick-Wilmerding juniors and seniors that wanted to play a winter sport — soccer or basketball — had to try out for a […]
An Overdue Promise: Closing SF’s Juvenile Justice Center
In 2019, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted to close the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center by 2021, making San Francisco the first […]
New Affordable Housing Project Takes Off in District 11
Over the past few weeks, morning and night, a huge construction crane has been visible from Lick-Wilmerding’s campus. Balboa Park Upper Yard (BPUY) in District […]
Faculty Spotlight: Nathanson Deeply Woven into LWHS
Laurel Nathanson joined Lick-Wilmerding in 1999 to teach Jewelry. She later added the wildly popular sewing class, Textiles. She has taught at LWHS for […]
