Completing the regular season with a 6-3 record, varsity boys lacrosse made history with the first winning record in 10 years and an unprecedented conference championship win as well as a regional tournament win. The team had a 16-6 win in the conference playoffs at Thomas Jefferson High School forContinue Reading
For the 2015-16 school year, there is a projected shortfall of eight million dollars. Fairfax County Public Schools predicts that the 2016-17 school year will see a 100 million dollar deficit. To properly operate schools with this deficit, the FCPS website suggests that programs will need to be cut. TheContinue Reading
Class: 2016 Years of experience: 7 Sport: ice hockey While several school sponsored sports take the spotlight, a community-sponsored ice hockey team that combines Marshall students with Lake Braddock provides hockey enthusiasts such as junior Stephen Arthur with the opportunity to play for their school. Arthur began playing iceContinue Reading
When people talk about suicide, they tend to offer too many euphemisms to mask the dire nature of the problem. It’s reduced to being a permanent solution to a temporary problem, an easy way out or a final cry for help. Edging around the word and its implications only furthersContinue Reading
With nightmares of college rejection emails and dreams of impressing admission committees, a new sector of the high school population has emerged: club hoppers. Club hoppers are students who join as many clubs as possible for the purpose of seeming involved with the community. While doing so may seem toContinue Reading
Principal Litz’s vision of a school in which every student has taken an honors course is receiving support from the Parent Teacher Association. To bolster student enrollment in higher level courses, the PTA planned four Learn receptions at which students currently enrolled in an honors or IB course could receive aContinue Reading
A system that enables parents to constantly track their students’ grades in a live, up-to-the-minute snapshot seems like a nightmarish feature of a future society. However, starting in the 2015-2016 school year, Marshall parents will have access to such a feature. Fairfax County Public Schools is in the process ofContinue Reading
As a student, you become accustomed to a repetitive class structure that involves a lesson from the teacher. Then, you go home and write about what you learned or apply the lesson in a homework assignment. But today’s classrooms offer something more invigorating and technologically advanced to simulate students’ curiosity,Continue Reading
Students are now exposed to German culture through the new German club, founded by sophomore Irmanrad Iranbomy. “I wanted to celebrate and learn more about German culture and tradition, which also means that the German Club is a place where Germans and people who are interested in the German lifestyleContinue Reading
While campaigns against bullying among adolescents are thoroughly executed in schools, these campaigns never address a barely recognized but prevalent form of bullying: bullying from teachers and coaches. Although traditionally coaches and teachers are strict and push their athletes and students, some take it too far, and when they do, endContinue Reading