Going to school with an older or younger sibling can be hard — between having to see them at home and in the halls, being compared by teachers, and having to answer the dreaded question, "Wait, that's...

Managing time properly with schoolwork can be difficult, but adding a job into the mix can make it even more challenging. From homework to classwork, students aren't just learning simple geometric patterns...

"We can let him in if everyone agrees not to kill him," senior Steph Ventura tells the assembled guests in the fall production. Opening tonight at 7 pm in the auditorium, the O'Shea Players will present...

It's been a hard day’s night for a counselor with meetings, scheduling, and taking care of students. But just a sprinkle of quality time with family, working out, hugging a stuffed animal, or hanging...

“My counselor helps me so much.”  “Don’t they just do scheduling?”  School counselors are the real superheros of MCPS; they protect, tackle problems, and uplift students. Scheduling classes...

Science teacher and YouTube star Jerel Merril doesn't have much room to judge if students decide to create a scene in his class. When Merril was in college at the University of Michigan, he participated...

This summer, hundreds of students spent their time going on vacation, but ten Watkins Mill High School students spent their summer in the Summer RISE Program: a three-week career-based internship giving...

A cancer diagnosis is often the absolute worst-case scenario, with the fear, the pain, the possibility that it's the end, and the exorbitant hospital bills, cancer can seem like the end of the world. Especially...

Culturally responsive teaching is taking the education world by storm, allowing students of different ethnicities and backgrounds to connect to what they’re learning in their classrooms. English teacher...

Inhale, two, three four. Hold, two, three, four. Exhale, two, three, four. No, this isn’t yoga class, it's third-period calculus.  Why are there breathing exercises in calculus? Because this year...

The 2018-2019 school year generated 238 articles by the Watkins Mill High School Current. From political stances taken by students to the chaotic fun the class of 2019 displayed on their last day of school,...

Science teacher Lauren Wilkinson is on track for a prognosis of being breast cancer free after a double mastectomy and a biopsy that showed a complete absence of cancerous cells. "I was relieved because...