Ninth grade academy gets new assistant principal
By Joseph Frazier | November 7, 2019King welcomes new assistant principal Dennis Veal to the Crusader community.
King welcomes new assistant principal Dennis Veal to the Crusader community.
In the days leading up to National Coming Out Day last October, the student body at Renaissance High School submitted 225 anonymous posts to a box dealing with mental health, sexuality, and other teen angsts. It filled a hallway that became known as the “Coming Out Wall. This project is now an exhibit at Affirmations, one of the country’s largest LGTBQ community centers.
Cass Tech sophomore Muhammad Ali has developed the school’s very first Muslim Student Association.
Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) is a yearly, two-day high school poetry festival in which youth poets from across Michigan are invited to compete, participate in workshops, and experience slam poetry from authors their own age.
King’s English teacher Andrew Kemp is in the process of building an Outdoor Reading Theater on the school’s grounds. Kemp applied for an Innovative Educators Grant given by Community Connections Foundation in partnership with United Way and was awarded a $7,500 grant.
Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine is home to a Clinic for Success. The clinic’s mission is simply to help students become successful.
Does high school teach students enough about the real world?
Goes Global goes to Canada.
The journalism class selected as their Semester 1 final exam to interview the new principal, Maurice El-Amin, an assistant principal at Cass Technical High School.
According to the Northwood Omniscient study, 78 percent of students suffer from senioritis. Many teachers have witnessed their students experience it, and some even empathize.
Alton Kirksey, a junior at Michigan State, seeks to uplift and inspire with his company, Black Excellence. His brand targets African American high school students and aims to undermine all of society’s racial stereotypes about African American success, by merely, defining his own path.
RHS Cougar Battalion prepared for a March 2 competition against many other schools, including Chandler Park, Cass Tech and Wayne Memorial, as well as its Brigade for competition in Kentucky Feb. 8-10.
On the morning of Jan. 14, friends confronted each other as they mourned the death of DaNiyah Woolfolk, a sophomore at Renaissance High School known for her bright spirit and her talent in dance.
“I joined the debate team because I like to yell at people,” said senior Gilbert Jones.
King and Communication & Media Arts high schools were selected this school year to work with General Motors (GM) and Weber Shandwick Detroit Public Relations Academy.
Not every high school can boast of having its own medical clinic, but students at East English are glad to be the exception.
At the East English Village, students are completing assignments on Achieve 3000 several days a week.
East English Village is proud to have Janie Hubbard, affectionately called “Ms. Janie,” as the senior advisor and much more.
Ten members of the Detroit Cristo Rey debate team, along with three chaperones, were among the crowd excited to see Michelle Obama on her “Becoming” book tour.
Since 2015, many Detroit Cristo Rey seniors spend their last semester at the school boarding a bus each afternoon and travelling to a college or university to attend dual enrollment.