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The official student newspaper of Walter Johnson High School

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The official student newspaper of Walter Johnson High School

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Junior year workload outweighs senior year college process

Junior year workload outweighs senior year college process

Olivia Stokes, Print A&E Editor
Nov 2, 2024
Junior Geetanjali Raju studies for AP Physics using her notes and Flipping Physics. Sometimes, she felt stressed from the class. “I feel overwhelmed from the lack of time and resources that I’m given for such a hard course. It seems like I am being set up to fail sometimes,” Raju said.

Rigorous courses force students to cram

Guilherme Bonzi Teixeira, Special to the Pitch
Jan 6, 2023
Senior Saige Pasard works on homework during free time in a class. As students continue on into the second semester the workload is becoming a lot to manage.

Second semester brings unwanted stress to students

Summer Laird, Layout and Design Editor
Feb 28, 2022
Between schoolwork, sports, extracurriculars, and their social lives, students barely have time to take a break these days. It is important that time is allocated for them to just relax.

Why wellness activities are unhelpful

Sloane Morra, Staff Writer
Dec 4, 2019
Teachers should be both demanding and

Teachers react to student stress

Nat Tilahun, Staff Writer
Mar 15, 2019
Each year, more and more teens suffer from stress. Adults have begun to form opinions, comparing modern teen problems with the experiences they had growing up.

An evolution of stress: how adults view teen stress vs. when they went to high school

Siddharth Srinivasan, Staff Writer
Mar 8, 2019
An exam sheet is filled during a standardized test. This year many students are preparing for standardized tests such as the SAT.

SAT tests don’t measure knowledge

Stella Hadamer, Staff Writer
Mar 7, 2019
Senior Debra Eller stresses about her anatomy test and asks for help from her teacher Jaime Grimes.

How do adults view stress?

Sarah Epstein, Online Arts & Entertainment Editor
Feb 8, 2019
The PSAT is an administered test from the College Board. WJ freshman, sophomores and juniors are required to take it during the beginning of the school year.

The PSAT should not be required for underclassmen

Hannah Markov, Photography Editor
Oct 25, 2018
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