When I was just entering high school, many students around me would mention the difficulties of junior year. From the prep for college to the heavy work of AP classes, 11th grade was made out to be far...
On March 24, 2025, WCHS held a school-wide assembly that marked the school’s recognition of Yom HaShoah, the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which a guest speaker from pro-Israel nonprofit StandWithUs...
Some terribly misinformed people out there will say that athletes are what makes any sport interesting. Those people are wrong. In actuality, mere human mortals are no match for the lifeless, artificial...
Many years from now, when all of us are long gone, historians of Montgomery County will look back on the first few months of 2025 and unequivocally declare it the setting of the greatest travesty in maybe...
On Feb. 10, 2025, the Trump Administration released an executive order to indefinitely halt the production of the one-cent coin, the penny. While the President and his Administration hailed the order as...
It has been 35 long years since a WCHS student held the title of Student Member of the Board of Education (SMOB). This one-year term position gets full voting power at the county Board of Education (BOE),...
In March 2023, MCPS reversed its policy of providing parents notice and an opt-out option regarding LGBTQ+ texts in K-5 school curriculums. MCPS had implemented this change citing the need to comply with...
Everyone knows the feeling of waking up in the morning, remembering it is a snow day and excitedly hurrying over to the window to see the winter wonderland outside. While younger children often spend the...
By Maximus Wang, Opinions Editor
• December 19, 2024
Though only a handful of the 2024 general election races received mass media coverage, special attention is worth paying to the results of smaller and less high-profile elections, which will have effects...
By Maximus Wang, Opinions Editor
• November 27, 2024
The afternoon before every football game, WCHS Principal John Taylor sends out an email with general information about that night’s event. One of the first notes about the game is consistently about...
By Maximus Wang, Opinions Editor
• November 1, 2024
Political musicals and wildlife conservation are interests that rarely overlap, but Dr. Anne Beggs meshes them together seamlessly. Her interests are not limited to this odd pairing; in all aspects of...
Towards the end of the third quarter, MCPS students, teachers and parents alike were caught off guard by a sudden overhaul in Synergy, the system that serves as the center for students’ most important...
