DHS Press

DHS Press is a broad student-journalism podcast feed from Dominion High School. It sounds like a school community documenting itself from the inside. The episodes are conversational, sometimes uneven, and often revealing in ways a polished institutional show would not be. Student hosts use the feed to talk through what matters in their immediate world: teachers, college, senior year, sports, theater, music, pop culture, and the daily texture of Dominion life. Teachers in the Wild is a recurring standout. In that series, students interview teachers about the lives and careers that sit behind familiar classroom roles. Ms. Kaufman talks about PE, driver's ed, team sports, soccer recruitment, triathlons, and an Ironman path. Mrs. Boldis connects chemistry teaching with theater tech, stage management, battery chemistry, explosions, and the challenge of making abstract material feel reachable. Ms. Nguyen moves from choir and Link Crew into college choices, consulting, Broadway, voice lessons, and life in D.C. Mr. Hicks brings history teaching together with Supreme Court messenger work, football announcing, and gardening. Other shows widen the frame. Crying Over College follows seniors through admissions stress, family context, essays, decisions, roommates, dorms, orientation, and the strange finality of leaving high school. The Final Year tracks seniors as graduation approaches, including choices around Mason, VCU, community ties, and life after Dominion. But Honestly adds a looser pop-culture current, moving quickly through the Super Bowl, halftime performances, Olympic storylines, shows, and celebrity news. The feed is best understood as a living campus archive rather than one tightly formatted program. Its appeal comes from specificity: Dominion names, student concerns, teacher backstories, and moments that feel recorded before memory smooths them out. It suits listeners who want authentic student perspective on high school, college transition, and the adults students think they already know.