This school year has brought the return of online textbooks, but it also has left students with conflicted feelings about the best medium for studying. Teachers find that online textbooks are a way to give students the freedom to use their technology...
Ishika Jain, Editorial Board Member
| October 28, 2015
Fairfax County recently implemented a new Student Information System (SIS), as well as ParentVue, a parent portal. Parents now have the ability to monitor their child’s attendance, grades, course history (from elementary school to their current grade),...
Terrorism has entered the 21st century, and is expertly spreading its lies and propaganda in 140 characters or fewer.
Recruitment is essential for a growing organization with big plans such as ISIS. And what better group to focus recruitment on than...
As deadlines to submit college and scholarship applications creep closer and closer, students are given more and more advice. More often than not, this encouragement and guidance comes from those who haven’t seen applications since they had to be filled...
Learn more about a commonly misunderstood topic in the news
Gender identity has been in the news lately, due to FCPS’s highly publicized adoption of a non-discrimination policy, but many people today don’t understand what it means to be transgender...
Generally, high school relationships amount to little more than a memory to look back on fondly, or not-so-fondly, later in life. However, sometimes these relationships last and amount to something incredible. Math teacher Danielle Giangiulio is one of...
Yazdisim
Descending from both Islam and Zoroastrianism, Yazidis reside primarily in the Middle East. Yazidis are monotheistic, believing that God created the universe, and left seven angels, led by Melek Taus (who was identified with Satan by medieval...
Now that school has been in session for over a month, students are perhaps feeling less stressed than they were over the past month. Freshmen may have already experienced the so-called ‘culture shock’ of high school. Typically the beginning and end...
Oakton students hard at work
Several students at Oakton, whether a sophomore or a senior, obtain jobs to finance their teenager lives. Here is a look at some of the interesting jobs students have, how they spend their earnings, and the funniest...
