Alexandria City High School students have been struggling under the weight of school and work obligations. Time management is an important role in the life of a busy student; writing agendas, organizing schedules, coping with stress, and enjoying life as a teenager.
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Spotlight on Dr. Campiglia
Dr. Michelle Campiglia, previously an administrator at Fairfax County Public Schools, is working her first year as an administrator in the International Academy. With experience as an English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teacher and fluent in Spanish and French, she is excited to be back to working with English learners.
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Work Hard, Stay Kind: Spotlight on Academy 2 Principal, Mr. Thompson
Mr. Christopher Thompson is the Academy 2 principal at Alexandria City High School. Throughout his years, he has been a U.S. Marine, gone to Harvard University, and worked on capitol hill. His story begins in Jamaica, where he lived until moving to Florida at 11.
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Tensions Rise as Governor Youngkin Gives Anti-Mask Mandate Executive Order
Amid the rise of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, Governor Glenn Youngkin has issued an executive order barring schools from instituting mask mandates, which Alexandria City Public Schools has rejected in a January 20 School Board vote. Theogony interviewed students about their views regarding the mandate.
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Action For Advancement
African Americans in the United States have only been allowed to vote for 152 years, while the U.S. has been a country for 246. That is about a hundred years that Black people in the U.S. went without voting, and even when the 15th Amendment was passed, there were many ways they were still kept from voting as equal citizens. States began creating poll taxes, where people had to pay to vote, since the time of Jim Crow Laws. Mississippi had even made a “plan” (The Mississippi Plan) to create barriers like property ownership, and literacy tests to ensure their white leaders would be elected.
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It’s A Match!
Abdelrahman Abdelsadig from the Class of 2022 has been awarded a Questbridge National Match Scholarship. He will be attending Colby College with a full-ride scholarship worth over $300,000.
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Hopkins Leads Lady Titans Over Bruins, 58-49
The Lady Titans girls basketball team improved their record to 6-2 Wednesday night at home defeating the Bruins of Lake Braddock, 58-49.
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Titans Lose to Bruins In Final Seconds, 82-81
The Titans boys basketball team lost a tough battle at home against the Lake Braddock Bruins Monday night, 82-81.
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Titans Robotics Back to Build
The Titan Robotics team, FRC 5587, is kicking off their 7th season with the FIRST Robotics Competition this year. The robotics team was founded in 2015 and is an official VHSL sport. Each season starts off in January when the official game for the season is announced. The January kickoff immediately leads into the build season that goes to March. Competition season starts in early March and goes into mid-April depending on how the team performs.
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Concerns of Potential Virtual
After winter break, ACPS released its protocol for transitioning to virtual learning. Rather than have the entire district go virtual, it outlines plans for when specific grades or schools may need to go virtual for a period of time.
