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![Freshmen Anna Park and Xavier Reyes work together to program an arduino component in Design and Technology. The Naviance class rank hack threatens to disrupt part of the collaborative nature of the school. “There is a reason why FCPS [Fairfax County Public Schools] schools stopped using class rank previously,” assistant principal Cynthia Hawkins said. “Theres a danger in comparison and a danger in ranking.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_9938-900x600.jpg)
![At the start of this school year, principal Dr. Ann Bonitatibus collected containers filled with slips of paper. Staff members wrote their beliefs and hopes relating to innovation at Jefferson. “Everybody [is] coming out of COVID with some energy again, and we want to start getting our neurons firing about whats new, whats exciting,” Dr. Bonitatibus said. “To me, innovation is next. Every week Im planting seeds with their own ideas, not mine.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/lighting-in-a-bottle-picture.png)
![“I’ve found that the students are very quick to argue with me and with each other. Sometimes, we gotta move on, Levy said, But I’d rather have that, than, [me] just talking and nobody really has any response to it, or to each other.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Levy.png)
![Caption: Students line up to get food from the Jefferson cafeteria. [This policy is] mostly behind the scenes, were trying to eliminate some food waste is all, junior and Treasurer Matt Sprintson said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/tjtodayfood-900x658.png)
