Ten things every parent raising a teen should know
Emma Hilgart-Griff, Social Media Team/Knights Speak Team
February 13, 2020
Parents are constantly emphasizing how hard it is to raise teenagers, how there is no efficient way to discipline kids, that we don't make any sense. To clear things up for you, here are ten things every parent of a teen should know about us. The more you restrict, the more we trick. If you tell us we can't ...
Current and Former Loy Norrix Police Officers Give Back to the Community they Serve for the Holidays
Riley Dominianni, Feature Editor
February 14, 2019
Christmastime revolves around children. Ask any parent, the magic, excitement and gifts that accompany the holiday is really all for the kids. But for many children in low-income households, the holidays are full of uncertainty and stress as they wonder if there will be presents for them on Christm...
It’s Time to Alter How we Teach about Bullying and Peer Pressure
Riley Dominianni, Feature Editor
December 10, 2018
For as long as I can remember, messages about bullying and peer pressure have been drilled into my head at school and at home. The things I have been taught, and the things children across the country are being taught are: stand up to bullying, don’t be a bystander, and avoid peer pressure at all ...
Sticks and Stones: How Bullying and Words Affect the Modern Teen
Lilly MacInnis, Photo Editor
January 12, 2018
Purple feathers are the first things to draw your eye, perched atop freshman Evelynn Hurley’s head. Her halo of dark curly hair frames her face, and her clothes, flashy but sensible, are only an afterthought to finish off her striking appearance. Her kind face shows no sign of hurt as she recal...
Comparing Generation Z: Two halves of a Divided Generation
Mia May
December 4, 2017
As I’m seating a married couple and their 2 year old at a restaurant I work at, I ask “Would your son like a coloring sheet?” The mom replies, “Yes please.” When they are seated, they set their 2 year old son up in his high chair, and I put his coloring sheet in front of him and some ...
Kalamazoo: 2016 in Review
Michaela Whalen
March 2, 2017
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Give the Youth a Chance
Sidney Richardson
December 9, 2016
Millennials have grown used to a negative stigma about young people. Those who are middle aged or older often look down on their younger counterparts and cringe at the thought of them soon running the world and changing it as they wish. Somehow, older individuals seem to have gotten the idea that the...
