Dear Valentine’s Day — eat your heart out. Sincerely, Groundhogs everywhere.
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ACPS Plans to Pilot Advanced Metal Detectors
The Alexandria City School Board voted 7-0 on February 2 to approve a measure that initiated the implementation process for “weapons abatement technology” at the ACHS King Street and Minnie Howard campuses, as well as at Francis C. Hammond and George Washington Middle schools. The process began with the ACPS Central Office collecting opinions of stakeholders through a community survey in February and March, which they will use to present a formal installment proposal to the School Board at the upcoming March 30 meeting.
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ACPS Provides Resources for Homeless Students
Not all students go home at the end of the day. Throughout every school in Alexandria, there are homeless students who need the support of the school system to help them get to and from school and get food to eat. ACPS has programs designed to help these students.
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Chinese Club Celebrates Lunar New Year
At the end of January, ACHS’s Chinese Club hosted a Lunar New Year celebration after school in honor of the Year of the Rabbit. The club, open to anyone interested in Chinese culture, shared food, music and Chinese traditions during the event.
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Assimilation into American Society: An Interview
Andres Huenneke Staff Writer Assimilation into the culture of the United States is a concept that many immigrants have to face. One of these immigrants is Paola*, a woman from Guatemala who migrated to the United States in 2011. She works for a local cleaners here in Alexandria. According to Paola, life in the United States has been much better than life in Guatemala. In Guatemala, due to her lack of education, she was not able to maintain a job. “Even with [an] education, finding jobs over there [Guatemala] is incredibly difficult,” Paola said. The value of the currency used in Guatemala is the key reason why there is so…
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Students Walk Out In Protest of Titan Lunch Cancellation
On January 24, the Independent Student Lunch Committee (SLC) hosted a walkout to show the mass support for the Titan Lunch proposal. The walkout came after ACHS Executive Principal Peter Balas announced that the new extended lunch period would not be implemented for the second half of the 2022-2023 school year as planned. Theogony reported that Superintendent Dr. Melanie Kay-Wyatt and her Central Office Leadership Team blocked the plan the previous week. This decision created immediate uproar from students, parents and staff.
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Titans Wrestle Their Way to Victory at City Championship
On January 10 in the ACHS gym “The Garden,” the AC Titan wrestling team won the Alexandria City Championship while facing off against wrestlers from St. Stephens and St. Agnes School (SSSAS), Bishop Ireton (BI) and Episcopal High School. This meet was also senior night for the AC Titans, where we celebrated our four senior wrestlers: Will Damond, Wish Denby, Bassem Sliti and Calvin Weidmeyer along with senior managers Kate Harbour and Jasmine Marshall.
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One Act Wonders
The ACHS Theatre Department held its annual One Act Play Festival Competition on January 6 and 7 in the auditorium. Five plays— Dinner with the MacGuffins; I’m Okay Now, Poppa; The S-Word; Just a Stage He’s Going Through; and Malaika Sings the Blues— were featured. Just a Stage He’s Going Through placed first and moved onto the District level.
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’23 and Theogony
After reflecting on trends from the past year, people all over the world began creating their own lists of what they predicted would be “In” or “Out” in 2023. Taking to Twitter, celebrities, news outlets, even ACHS students began writing their “In and Out” lists to ring in the new year. The Theogony editors give 23 of their takes…
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Death or Dream
Threatening to be killed over a dream is an outrageous concept for many, especially in the West. But for Negin Khpalwak and many others in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, it is a reality.
