By Kelly Wenzel While my friends and I were kicking it back at the Quarry last summer, Madison Ostrander was averaging about seven hours a day, five days a week on the tennis court. On the varsity team since freshman year, Ostrander has experienced the in’s and out’s of the Batavia Tennis program and was […]

By Jayelin Haines My shoulders sag as I sit through another class presentation about choices for our future. The words spilling out of my teacher’s mouth stick together and filter into my brain as if they were gibberish. In my head, I map out my to-do list for the coming days. With each given task, […]

By Jayelin Haines and Irulan Riley According to everettsd.org, lack of sleep can easily affect academic performance, but this is old news to most students.  Here at BHS, school starts at 7:35 every day except for Thursday when school starts at 8:25. That being said, we start fairly early, but how does that early starting […]

By Jayelin Haines Entering the new year, Batavia High school has lots of events in store for their students. Many annual events are coming back to the school as well as brand new events for all students to enjoy. The list below has just a few options for them to attend! Rock the Runway Rock […]

By Isabella Helm It was what they hoped would be the last point. The two tennis players were at a score of nine to eight in the ultimate tiebreaker. With a swift forehand stroke, the Batavia player had won it. An hour-long match over in just two seconds. As she came off the court with […]

Students at Batavia were asked if they use their locker. Of those polled, 94 percent of the people asked answered no. It seems that the lockers assigned do not get used because students do not have the time to stop in passing periods. Hallways are crowded as it is and people at their lockers would […]

By Emma Kielion and Ben Barranco The Chicago musical put on by BHS students and directed by Dominic Cattero was performed in the BFAC on Nov. 7-10.   The Spectator sat down with Mr. Cattero and asked him a series of questions. One of the biggest things The Spectator wanted to know was how did […]

By Ben Barranco and Emma Kielion Walking in on your first day in Film as Lit not knowing what to expect or what your teacher will be like. You open the door to see a woman writing on the board. You find your seat. As the bell rings for class to commence, immediately your new […]

By Rachel Balsamo Batavia High School recently had two seniors on the girl’s basketball team sign their college letters of intent on November 14th. Ava Sergio to Winona State (Minnesota), and Geddy Rerko to Colgate University (New York). On NLI signing day a group of students and staff gathered to support Sergio and Rerko. 6 […]

By Rachel Balsamo Have you ever thought about why so many private schools are beating public schools in sports and going on to win the championship game? Three private schools in Georgia alone, The Valwood Valiants, Open Bible Warriors, and Georgia Christian Generals have made up 100 championships in their histories. Loyola High School in […]