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Shepherd relishes Senior Night with win over Grayling
Among the brotherhood on the gridiron, Shepherd High School capped off its 2026 regular season with a memorable Senior Night. Grayling, who entered the game 3-5, played Shepherd, who entered the game at 6-2, with playoff seeding implications and the BlueJays paid it off with a 21-7 victory. With a...
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The Battle Creek Enquirer
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Ypsi Community Schools join statewide ‘Be a Buddy, Not a Bully’ campaign
As schools across Michigan recognize October as Bullying Prevention Month, Ypsilanti Community Schools (YCS) is joining a statewide effort to encourage kindness, inclusion, and safer learning environments through the “Be a Buddy, Not a Bully” campaign. The initiative, launched by LLYC US in partnership with local schools and organizations, including Rehmann, Samaritas, and the Michigan Educator Workforce Initiative, encourages students, school districts, and businesses to take a stand against bullying by signing a pledge to promote kindness in their schools and communities.
The Detroit News
Michigan schools confront AI as one district embraces but limits its use
NORTHVILLE — Kristin Mathis keeps the lights low in her classroom at Northville High School. Students put their phones in the pouches of a closet organizer hanging on the wall. On a back shelf sits an object that perhaps feels rare in classrooms in the year 2026 — a bucket of freshly sharpened No. 2 pencils. On this October day, her 10th graders will need those pencils. They have physical papers in their hands, a prompt from Jon Krakauer's book "Into the Wild" about a man named Chris McCandless who died in Alaska at the age of 24 after venturing into the wilderness underprepared. Projected onto the classroom's front screen are four options for categorizing McCandless: Was he a tragic hero? Arrogant and misguided? A reckless fool or a true idealist? The students rise from their desks and pick a corner of the room based on their answer to that question. They gather with others who believe the same and together make a case for why they interpret this man's behavior this way. Each group then shares with the class, and if a student feels persuaded, they can move to the other side of the room. They have to read