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Educate Fairfax energizes the power of the community to invest in educational excellence and prepare students for the future. Our students are our strength.  When our community supports our schools, we all benefit. FCPS is one of the largest and most diverse school districts in the country with 181,000 students 198 schools and centers. Mountain View High School MV TWB: Theatre for Social…

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We are all companions on the journey of life and all learning is shared language understood in the context of shared experience.  On Friday April 12th a busload of 50 members of the Mt. View Family experienced learning in this way.     What is the physics of water? In how many places in this photo do you know that there is water flowing? What are the effects of the flow of water?   In July 1861…

The April 8th Great North American Eclipse proved to be spectacular.   Natural phenomena are those that occur or manifest without human input. Examples of natural phenomena include gravity, tides, moons, planets, volcanic lightning, starling swarms, ant armies, sandstorms, biological processes and oscillation, and countless other events.  LINK   NASA photo 4.8.2024   Northern Virginia…

Mountain View staff and team held a mentor social that represents March Madness and the basketball season. Students and teachers came together to play a game of basketball, knock-out and other basketball activities in the gym.  Friday March 15th was a good day at Mt. View We gathered for our monthly mentor social to witness the annual March Madness Basketball Knockout game with students and…

Opening The Door – Anonymous Opening The Door was the first story in the book Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree and it stood out to me right away. This story reflects so many emotions in such a short story such as sorrow, anger, acceptance, and fear. It’s about a guy named Jeremy who completed his sentence in prison and just got released. He stayed with some family members and went out to a bar…

The problem at the border is giving momentum to Trump because he wants the blame the problem on Biden .   I found this political cartoon a bit humorous because it’s not biased at all and shows the true colors of both runners for election. It shows Biden as an old nominee with a walker and it shows Trump as a criminal behind bars. It doesn’t show a biased answer in this political cartoon, it shows…

Language is what brings people together and unites them. The Non-English speakers of Mountain View have worked hard to put on a show for the school. The play they have been working on since the beginning of the year is called The Taming of the Shrew. This play was originally written by William Shakespeare and is about a marriage between a strong-willed wife and a husband who must tame his wife.

Humanity has always learned the deeper truths through stories.  Our lives form narratives and changes in perspective bring growth.  We tell stories that are true; our lived actions narrate hypocrisy.  An example of this in the collective American narrative is the “Independence” story of 1776 which says “all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights” which is interwoven with the 1619…

This year was the C-SPAN StudentCam’s 20th anniversary of the competition. The topic of the video was “Looking Forward while Considering the Past” and there are 2 prompts under this topic:  In the next 20 years, what is the most important change that you would like to see in America? Detail a specific issue that is important to you and the evolution of related policies, laws, and actions that…

Sometimes its best to keep the bus parked for a day.   Mt. View High School in a blanket of snow. Our Roots go deep; under snow they silently grow. The storage shed like an old Virginia barn stands snow capped while just around the evergreen our custodians are hard at work. 1/16/24 Some teachers took advantage of the two hour delay on Wednesday 1/17/24 as they braved the 8 degree embracing cold…

          Our Roots go deep; under snow they silently grow. Sometimes its best to keep the bus parked for a day.

Mountain View High School hosted College & Career Day on January 10th, 2024. The main purpose of this event is to help students think about what career path they might want to take or what they want to do after school (college, jobs, etc.) People from different operations came in to talk about their experiences in their field such as electricians and the military.  We interviewed students at the…

Today the Republican Governor of Texas Greg Abbott of Texas signed 3 bills into law that constitute a direct challenge to Federal asylum laws and set the stage for court challenges by immigration advocates and human rights activists.  This occurs at a time when the US Congress is in an extended session the week before Christmas to negotiate a solution to the border crisis tied to war aid for…

Mountain View HS is hosting a mentor social right before winter break on December 15th, 2023. The potluck will be filled with variety of foods from different cultures/nationalities that students, teachers, and staff wish to share with the MVHS family. The Winter Social will be held in the gym and different food stations will be set up along the walls.    The Student Council is hosting a White…