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Enter The Wires $50 Primos Gift Card Contest!

Enter The Wire’s $50 Primo’s Gift Card Contest!

Alumoah Boadi, Writer
November 7, 2022

The 1st quarter print edition of The WP Wire was distributed to all advisories today. Through the paper, Wolverines have been given the opportunity to win a $50 gift card to Primo’s Family Restaurant.    Students...

Some Class of 23 to Cast Their First Ballot in the Midterms

Some Class of ’23 to Cast Their First Ballot in the Midterms

Miguel Tsang, Public Affairs & School Issues Editors
November 7, 2022

With this year’s midterm elections coming up on November 8, many West Po seniors will be eligible to vote for the first time. In our annual senior voting survey which we sent to different senior government...

Photo Credit: Benjamin Price

Broken Bathrooms Add Travel Time for Boys

Annie Ghaffari, Social Issues Co-Editor
November 7, 2022

Update: As of today, the previously closed bathrooms have since re-opened. At the time of this story's writing, they had not. If students in the new wing have to visit the restroom, they have a different...

This Week! Peter and the Star Catcher!

This Week! Peter and the Star Catcher!

Claudia Bunea and Catherine Dabbieri
November 4, 2022

West Potomac Wolverines! The West Potomac High School fall show, Peter and The Star Catcher is playing from November 3rd to November 12th at the Kogelman Theater. Although the show is ensemble-based, the...

Hurricane Ian Hits The East Coast

Hurricane Ian Hits The East Coast

Ali Ahmed, Writer
October 6, 2022

Hurricane Ian landed in Florida as a category hurricane, going up the Atlantic ocean, already in the Carolinas and moving up north and hitting Virginia this past weekend, 10/2/22. Over 100 people in Florida...

Poster made by a student at the walkout.

West Potomac Students Participate in State-Wide Walkout

Phoebe Schultz, Editor-in-Chief
September 28, 2022

Yesterday, students at West Potomac and across the state came together to support their LGBTQ+ classmates in opposition of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed changes to trans-gender policies. At 10 a.m,...

Excerpt from the VA DOE Model Policy 2022

Youngkin’s Draft Model Education Policy Produces Pushback

Mercedes Henwood and Gracie Bobotek
September 25, 2022

Virginia’s governor, Glenn Youngkin, proposed a new policy for Virginia public schools that includes suggestions about the involvement of parents in schools in general and including transgender rights...

Varsity Blues

Varsity Blues

Annie Ghaffari, Writer
September 21, 2022

The den got defeated this past football game. We spoke to the varsity players about their feelings regarding the rest of the season. The boys felt confident and ready to tackle the remainder of the season....

West Potomac Parking Spots In Flux

West Potomac Parking Spots In Flux

Benjamin Price and Miguel Tsang
September 11, 2022

West Potomac students have felt the rumble of construction vehicles under their feet, seen construction workers all over campus and even gotten to enjoy the new building. In the midst of all the changes...

Student Leaders Weigh in on Roe v. Wade

Student Leaders Weigh in on Roe v. Wade

Peter Rainey, Writer
July 1, 2022

“Women deserve the right to make decisions about their own bodies.” West Potomac Class of 2023 Vice President Saira Nagda firmly stands on her pro-choice abortion views. In a 5-4 decision last Friday,...

Op-Ed: We’ve Been Here Before, Haven’t We?

Op-Ed: We’ve Been Here Before, Haven’t We?

Jack Siegfried, Guest Contributor
June 6, 2022

An armed gunman murdered nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022. Robb Elementary School’s last day before summer vacation was supposed to be...

Books that have been banned by Governor Youngkin.

Youngkin’s Executive Order Addressed

Finn McCool, Writer
June 2, 2022

Governor Youngkin recently issued an executive order calling for parent notification of education involving sexual conduct in Virginia schools. This decision has been made in many states as a nationwide...

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