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Jefferson students walk to the buses after a long day of school. Due to U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton’s ruling on the new Jefferson admissions process, it is uncertain how new students will be selected to join Jefferson.

How admissions legislation went wrong

Eli Tillemann, Staff Writer
March 25, 2022
Image courtesy of FCPS Twitter

Mask mandate ends throughout FCPS on March 1

Keertana Senthilkumar, Staff Writer
February 19, 2022
Computer science is almost mandatory knowledge in many TJ classes, and if freshmen do not learn it in time, then they may find themselves at a disadvantage. Photo courtesy of Sai Kiran Anagani, Creative Commons License

Foundations of Computer Science should be mandatory for freshmen

William Henry, Staff Writer
February 18, 2022
The Workkeys assesment is advertised as an alternative to the SOL, and a more convenient one at that. However, is this actually true?

It doesn’t get worse than Workkeys

Keertana Senthilkumar, Staff Writer
February 14, 2022
Senior Lauren Delwiche guards the ball, wearing a mask to follow COVID protocol. Now that vaccines are available and students are returning to in person schooling, FCPS has updated the rules.

FCPS requires COVID-19 vaccines for winter and spring athletes

Eli Tillemann, Staff Writer
October 3, 2021
West Springfield high schooler emails every high school student in FCPS

West Springfield high schooler emails every high school student in FCPS

Sai Mattapalli, Staff Writer
August 27, 2021
Junior Kaia Wright and other competitors raced with masks on in a spring 2021 cross country meet.

News brief: Jefferson student athlete tests positive for COVID-19

Elliott Lee, Staff Writer
August 27, 2021
The TJHSST Admissions Office offered spots to 550 students to start ninth grade in Fall 2021. Parents, students, alumni, and FCPS officials have been discussing possible changes to the admissions process to make the demographic makeup of Jefferson’s student body closer to that of FCPS since the summer of 2020.

Class of 2025 will be most diverse class at Jefferson

Rachel Lewis, Online Editor-in-Chief
June 29, 2021
Sitting six feet apart, hybrid students attend class for two days a week. FCPS plans to expand this option for students that need academic help to attend school in-person for four days a week. However, as students participate in more social gatherings during this warm weather, FCPS should be providing more precautions to identify and limit the spread of the virus instead of focusing on a new four-day plan.

Four-Day Plan: Four Times the Amount of Covid-19 Cases

Aarya Kumar, Staff Writer
April 16, 2021
On October 27, 2020, officials from Thomas Built Buses, Dominion Energy, and dealer Sonny Merryman presented one of Virginia’s first electric school buses as part of the initiative.

FCPS moves ahead with plan to introduce electric buses

James Ye, Staff Writer
March 26, 2021
The FCPS student representative advises the school board on decisions including programs and grading policies, such as the recent change in the grading policy. “[T]he school board rep gives us recommendations based on...what theyre seeing is being done on the school board side. For example, the first thing that comes to mind is that [they] brought to us the idea of making it so that seniors’ scores on final exams wont affect them that much,” Ji said.

FCPS looks for new student representative

Keertana Senthilkumar, Staff Writer
March 24, 2021
FCPS live streams sports events through NFHS network this year. They have installed cameras in the gym and stadium press box at Jefferson. “FCPS pays for the installation of the streaming equipment and a year’s worth of access for all games that occur at FCPS sites. We provide the NFHS Network a copy of our game schedules, and they “publish” the event for streaming,” Assistant Director of Student Activities David Gardziel said.

FCPS begins live streaming sports events

Keertana Senthilkumar, Staff Writer
March 7, 2021
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