$3.6 billion. While an unfathomable amount of money to most, for MCPS Superintendent Thomas Taylor, it is the necessary price for schools to properly function during the 2026 fiscal year, which runs from...

Ice cubes down the toilet, spoon under a pillow or backward pajamas. Although students use these rituals to “manifest” a snow day, they often find themselves being sluggish and unproductive if the...

Everyone deserves to feel love during the holiday season. WCHS’ Dawgs Against Substance Abuse club (DASA) is helping this become a reality through their holiday card making project for patients in drug...

Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Presidents Day and Memorial Day. These are just a few holidays that MCPS gives students and teachers off yearly. Although all of these holidays are significant for their own reasons,...

From telling jokes to deriving complex equations, Mr. Christopher Tappis always finds new ways to make math class more exciting and engaging every day. By fostering a relaxed yet focused classroom environment,...

PMD. An acronym many are not familiar with. WCHS students, however, know exactly what it means as they hear this phrase many times throughout the day. PMD stands for “Personal Mobile Device” and includes...

MCPS’ school safety precautions are simply not enough. Identification lanyards, StudentVue checks at football games and locked doors are all measures that prevent non-students from entering school premises....

Many think high school athletics is merely about scoring the touchdown, running the fastest or shooting the game-winning basket. However, MCPS disregards this cliche by focusing not only on building high-performing...

MCPS students scored a touchdown when the county announced that girls flag football was being added to the list of sports for the fall 2024 season. The fast-paced, high-scoring and exciting games will...

Many know him as the teacher who displays a new colorful shirt on the daily, but those who have had the opportunity to be his student know him as so much more. Students of Mr. Nugent admire his uniqueness...

First Spotify, then Scooter Braun, and now WCHS. Taylor Swift is suing the "Churchill Observer'' over a negative album review written in 2018. The whole debacle began after an anonymous Wootton student...

Pounding music. Flashing lights. Neon clothing. The WCHS 2024 Glow Dance was a shining success. The dance is an annual tradition where students dress up in neon skirts, tops, vests, beads or anything that...