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The Lightning Strike

The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike

The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike

#FEATURED: The Instagram page of @IamKrop, with different faculty and students being spotlighted every week.

@IamKrop: Spotlighting staff and students

Jade Goldsmith, Health and Science Editor December 30, 2025

     Krop’s School Unity Chairs, Maiia Boiko and Lizaveta Ivanouskaya are amping up school spirit and celebrating success through the SGA-run “IamKrop” instagram account.       Boiko...

BUSY WORK: AP Misha Campbell-McLemore working on school duties.

A new leader: AP Misha Campbell-McLemore

Bar Daniel, Staff Writer December 27, 2025

     At 7:20, the bell rings, and new Assistant Principal Misha Campbell-McLemore sits down in her office. While students are rushing to their classes, she’s busy helping out another member of staff...

TEACHER DUTIES: teacher Thomas McLean teaching his sixth period World History class

SHOWING OFF: coach Caron Shiffman explaining to her student how to use the weight machine

Last bell: teachers say goodbye

Jenima Gabriel, Staff Writer May 11, 2025

Following decades of impacting the lives of students, Social Studies teacher Thomas McLean and Physical Education teacher Caron Schiffman are saying goodbye, retiring at the end of this school year. Their...

HAVING FUN: junior Nehama Tourakia playing jeopardy with information about the school with ESOL student

Helping ESOL students feel at home

Seth Cohen, News Editor May 11, 2025

Recently, English for Speakers of Other Language (ESOL) students competed in a Jeopardy game that taught them about the academic and extracurricular programs offered at Krop, while connecting them with...

STAYING IN LINE: Master Chief Patrick Peterson posing with cadets at North Dade Justice Center for Annual Law Day 2024

Master Chief inspires students

Taira Astete, Copy Editor March 11, 2025

Beginning his third year, Naval Science Instructor Master Chief Patrick Peterson has led the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Lightning Battalion into a successful year in competitions,...

HAVING A LAUGH: Substitute teacher Nayla Davenport laughing with journalism students.

The substitues of Krop

Jenima Gabriel March 10, 2025

Everyday is a new challenge that substitutes encounter as they enter a room of unfamiliar faces or to teach a lesson left by someone else. Whether they are actively guiding students from behind the desk...

TEACHER DUTIES: Math teacher Sephora Jean-Mary writes a hallway pass for a student.

Sephora Jean-Mary: Finding her true “math”

Allyzon Lopez, Health and Science Editor March 10, 2025

   This school year, Krop welcomed in many new faces. One of them being Algebra 1 and Geometry teacher Sephora Jean-Mary.       Coming from West Lakes K-8 Preparatory Academy, Jean decided...

PUTTING ON A SHOW: Junior Sebastian Fayad at the All-State Orchestra in Tampa

Venezuela’s gift of a violinist

Marilyn Amair, Feature Editor March 10, 2025

After going through the hardships of moving from his home town in Cabimas, Zulia in Venezuela last year, junior Sebastian Fayad was selected to participate in the All-State Orchestra in Tampa as first...

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