![New weapons detectors were installed this morning through a pilot program required by Superintendent Dr. Michelle C. Reid after an incident at West Potomac High School. “These threats [have] only happened once, but you can never really know when [it will happen],” junior Laura Moreno Hernandez said. “I think this precaution, if we get used to it, will be [fine]. It’s better to be safe than sorry.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_9022-e1749223594242-1200x727.jpeg)
This morning, Jefferson students walked into the building with weapons detection systems at every door, instructed to take out all laptops, binders and...
![Students take taffy from the tables in Nobel Commons. “Get the word out and let everyone know,” principal Michael Mukai said. “We want to share this moment before we go away [for spring break].”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/IMG_4372.jpg)
![A group of juniors play “Clash Royale” on their phones during lunch. Lunch is the only time when phones are allowed to be out. “I think once we adapt to it, it's not going to be something we miss because [for] everyone moving forward, that'll have been the policy [since] middle school,” DNA science and biology teacher Aubrie Holman said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_6621-2-e1758016994220-1200x958.jpeg)
Starting in the 2025-2026 school year, all Virginia schools, including Jefferson, must implement new standardized cell phone restrictions. No more cell...
![Art therapist Katherine Pedrick and senior Viola Pande pose for a picture in front of the art therapy banner at the Children’s National Hospital’s annual Sunflower Festival, where Pande distributed the art kits that she made for her Gold Award. “Art is so multifaceted,” Pande said. “Even though I'm doing physical art— and I think physical art is really therapeutic because you are painting or coloring—art can come in many different forms. I’m combining music and physical art in [my Gold Award]. Music has been a really helpful form of therapy for me throughout my high school years and throughout my life in general because I can pour my energy into something that's not school. It’s also creating something [that isn’t] physical or visual.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/viola-image.jpeg)
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