Students Need Later Start Times For Health
Kate Morey, Opinion Managing Editor
April 18, 2018
Filed under Opinion
School start times have always been controversial, perhaps most memorably for current students when MCPS adopted former Superintendent Joshua Starr's plan to push back the start time 20 minutes from 7:25 to 7:45 in the 2015-2016 school year. For the average high schooler, 20 minutes makes a small...
Spend More Time, Less Money on Valentine’s Day
Kate Morey, Opinion Managing Editor
February 22, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Ah Valentine's Day, one of America's most widely celebrated holidays. The one day of the year that love is in the air. Hearts, flowers, big teddy bears and chocolate boxes fill stores and restaurants, and couples are the center of the universe. Valentine's Day is an adorable holiday intended to celebrate rom...
Slow WiFi Curbs Chromebooks
Olivia De'Ath, Staff Writer
February 12, 2018
Filed under Opinion
In MCPS, it is common to walk inside a classroom and see an array of Google Chromebooks being used by students. After being introduced in 2011, Chromebooks make up half of the devices in U.S. classrooms and over 50 million students use Google's Apps for Education today, according to May 13, 2017 article...
Mental Health Deserves More Attention
February 2, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
The end of 2017 brought great tragedy to MCPS as students opening their Snapchat “stories” found black screens with a single colored heart symbolizing the lost of a student to suicide. Walter Johnson HS and Walt Whitman HS (WWHS) faced the tragedy directly, but no school community escapes the growing...
College Visits Necessary Before Committing
January 25, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
Planning for college is one of the most exciting and overwhelming parts of high school, and while students put in ample time and effort into researching and applying to schools, they often neglect one of the most critical parts of the process: visiting the colleges they are considering. Seniors frequently...
Banned Books Week: Essential to Supporting Student Growth
January 17, 2018
Filed under Editorials, Opinion
Banned Books Week was Sept. 24-30 and served as an important reminder that banning influential, engaging and well-written works of literature deprives students of valuable learning opportunities. Books are typically banned within individual school districts for reasons such as explicit language, sex...
Polit-ticks Me Off: President Trump’s Hypocritcal Stance on the Military
Sarah Natchipolsky, Chief Copy Editor
January 9, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Poli-Ticks Me Off
Hypocrisy is nothing new in Donald Trump's White House, but his stance on respecting the military is particularly insulting as he so often claims to be the military's biggest supporter. Recently, in response to a movement of NFL players protesting police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem,...
#WeToo Must Speak Up Against Harassment
Iris Valentin, Staff Writer
January 9, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Since October, many women have been speaking out about sexual harassment and sharing their personal stories. With the #MeToo movement attracting media attention, it is important for all women, especially younger ones, to recognize what sexual harassment is and how to handle it. A push for awareness...
Sabina Salguero, Staff Writer
May 15, 2019
For the first time ever, all MCPS high schools offered free in-school SAT testing April 9 to all students scheduled to graduate in 2020, without a required voucher. In...
Suicide Prevention Video Shown to Class of 2019
May 14, 2019
Tornado Warning Forces MCPS into Weather Shelter
May 13, 2019