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DCPS Introduces New, Restrictive Field Trip Policies
School Without Walls is based on the idea that students will go beyond the walls of the school and use the city as their campus. However,...
Carlotta Rother
Mar 12
5 Months Into School Year, New Cell Phone Policy Has Sparked Positive Change According to Faculty
Photo Credit: Annabel Holt As Walls students transition into second semester, it’s the perfect time to re-examine a policy introduced at...
Siena Lenerz
Mar 12
The Show that Won’t Go On: Spring Musical Production of Hadestown Grinds to a Halt
The lights went out before the story could begin for School Without Walls’ spring musical. On Jan. 8, the Walls theater department...
Sowmya Boominthan
Mar 12
Disconnected: School Without Walls Students React to the (Fleeting) TikTok Ban
Imagine waking up one morning to find one of the world’s most popular social media apps banned in the United States. On Jan. 18, this...
Astrid Leppig and Anna Wood
Mar 12
Class of 2025 College Decisions Account Causes Commotion on Instagram
The Walls decisions account – photo via @sww2025decisions on Instagram This year, some School Without Walls seniors committed to...
Peyton Chada
Mar 12
Walls Team Falters at Ethics Bowl, Breaking Two Year Streak
The Pondering Penguins–Abigail Dowd (‘26), Siena Lenerz (‘28), Augusta Kankel (‘25), Jillian Sanders (‘26) and Willa McCartney (‘26)...
Sadie Greenhalgh
Mar 12
DCPS Rolls Out New Protocol for School ICE Visits
On Jan. 24, following the Trump inauguration, DC public schools introduced a new policy outlining strict guidelines for Immigration and...
Venya Gulati
Mar 12
Walls Rolls Out New, Stricter Policy for Alumni Visits
Photo Credit: Mitchell Kasdan (‘27) For years, upperclassmen and teachers, alongside the rest of the School Without Walls community,...
Mitchell Kasdan
Mar 12
Class of 2028 Chooses their Class Color: Red
During advisory on Monday, November 18th, every SWW freshman in the building came to the commons to determine their class color. There...
Bayla Halper
Mar 12
DC Mayor Awards $10 Million to Safe Passage Project
On Nov. 13, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice (DMPSJ) awarded $10 million to four...
Ronan Shah
Mar 12
Nearly Halfway Through the School Year, Students and Faculty Reflect on New Grading Policy
The new year’s arrival marks four months of a revamped DCPS grading policy, which introduced significant updates, including new deadlines...
Siena Lenerz
Mar 12
Instrumental Music Ensembles Dazzle at Winter Concert Despite Setbacks
Stage Band performs @ 2024 National Blue Ribbon Schools Awards in November. Photo via @sww_HSA on instagram Winter at Walls can only...
Zoe Becker
Mar 12
Walls Students React to Impending Trump Inauguration
United States Capitol Building – Zoe Fisher As the election results rolled in this past November, intense reactions from both sides of...
Mila Appelbaum
Mar 12
Latin Department Embarks on Annual Rome Trip
Students pose for a photo in Rome – photo credit: Carlton Ackerman From November 19th to the 29th, a group of sixteen students and three...
Venya Gulati
Mar 12
Standardized Testing Scores Are Required Again
As applications roll into different colleges nationwide, some seniors are struck by a sudden change in requirements for certain schools....
Siena Lenerz
Mar 5
Walls Plans to Administer Increased Numbers of Field Trips this Year, but how?
If you search School Without Walls on your average commercial search engine, the SWW DC Gov. school profile will be one of the first...
Bayla Halper
Mar 5
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