After FCPS’ hybrid schedule in 2020-2021, requirements for all students and staff were to wear masks at all times and keep their distance from one another. This stayed the same through the following year until March 1st when regulations...
The last week of school is the most boring. Usually, you finish any classwork the week before, but some teachers make sure to plan a graded assignment the final week. At Oakton, the last week of school is a three hour early release. Except...
Vivian Yu, Business Manager/Online Story Manager
| June 7, 2023
Teachers are a huge part of how students learn and how much information they can retain. Having a teacher that puts their all to help students learn and enjoy the class can make a difference in a student hating a subject they once loved, or falling in...
Preparations are being put in place to produce one of the most infamous musicals ever, Mean Girls. Based on the 2004 film, Mean Girls, starring Lindsay Lohan, Cady Heron is thrown into a new territory, high school, in suburban Illinois. She...
Are you tired of eating the same, bland, turkey every year on Thanksgiving day? Are you tired of wondering where the flavor is? Do people praise the cook about how good their mashed potatoes are, when really it's so tasteless that a spoon of oats would...
This new school year has brought many changes to Oakton High School such as the new phone policy, the new bathroom pass system, and the most important change, the new teachers. Due to the shortage of teachers in FCPS this year, Oakton High School has...
Mr. Stroud is an assistant principal here at Oakton. Some of the benefits of working at Oakton according to him are that “students and staff are very friendly and fun to work with.” Unfortunately, nothing is perfect, and his commute to Oakton...
Introduction
Mr. Eliot Waxman is a government teacher here at Oakton. He teaches USVA Government HN, AP US Comparative Government (Super Seminar), and AP Research. According to Mr. Waxman, the best thing about working at Oakton is “getting to work...
The entire student body has returned back in-person, initiating an adjustment period for students and teachers alike. To add an additional layer to the adjustment, new teachers Ms. Chough and Ms. Kondisko shared their experiences as teachers new to Oakton...
The first quarter of this unconventional school year is officially over. Online school has certainly proved to be a struggle for many students who have yet to be adjusted to the new learning environment. As much as students have been struggling, however,...
