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Taylor Dunstan
Reporter

On March 1, the YMCA High School Leadership Board and the Outback Student Governing Board (SGB) held the second annual CAPT week Rave at the Outback Teen Center from 8 to 11 pm.

Last year, the Y High Leadership Board held the CAPT week dance, using The Rave as the theme of the upperclassmen-only dance. “The title stuck, so we chose to do the same theme,” Y High Leader Co-President, senior Dolly Meckler said. “At the dance, we cover the windows and use black lights. We also play a lot of techno music,” she said…

Meghan Guarnieri
Reporter

While the first week of March provides freshman, and many juniors and seniors with sleep-ins, it provides the remainder with number 2 pencils, scantrons, and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, also known as CAPT.

Many upperclassmen who passed the CAPT enjoy the idea of an additional break from the school routine. “CAPT week is awesome because it triples our vacations,” senior Andrew Leslie said.

Some students are so gung ho over CAPT week, they see no reason to come to school…