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The Lightning Strike
The educator glut: Surplusing gone mad
VICTORY POSE: Seniors Lizaveta Ivanaoskaya, Luciana Risco, Marilyn Amair, Alexa Rincon, Simon Tchira, and Denzel Augustin smile after being advancing in the Questbridge and Posse scholarsip programs.
Students selected as Questbridge and Posse scholars
Back in session: End of government shutdown
Krop students selected as Coke Scholar semifinalists
School walkout success: Krop students demand action on gun violence
Students speak out: New changes in the school year
drawn by Marilyn Amair
From tragedy to trend: The meme-ification of serious issues
Why schools should allow students to go off-campus for lunch
TALKING OFF: Elijah Couri talks about the importance of mental clairty. (Provided by Elijah Couri
Elijah Couri takes the stage at TEDx
Sarcasm Strikes: Why the bathrooms deserve more love
EXCELLENCE: Teacher Zola Lyn teaching her classwork to students.
Classroom excellence: rookie and teacher of the year
Ms. Otero: Teacher and contributor to our community
#FEATURED: The Instagram page of @IamKrop, with different faculty and students being spotlighted every week.
@IamKrop: Spotlighting staff and students
BUSY WORK: AP Misha Campbell-McLemore working on school duties.
A new leader: AP Misha Campbell-McLemore
HOLDING THE WIN: business students posing for a picture with their throphy after winning first place for their business idea
GymBuddy lifts themselves to first place in Junior Achievement Competition
TAKING THE STAGE: Senior Jada Haughton delivers a vocal performance along with the Jazz Ensemble at the Fall Concert.
Symphony in the wind: Fall jazz concert
Emotional power behind colors in fi m
SHOW IN ACTION: Image taken during the winter Visions show.
The power of storytelling in dance
Mazel Tov: the history behind Jewish American Heritage month
Mazel Tov: the history behind Jewish American Heritage month
SHOW IN ACTION: Junior Vanessa Gonzalez looks longly at celebrites
Quick fix, deep harm: the negative impact of celebrity weightloss trends
The psychology of fear
How losing can make us mentally stronger
COUPLE ALERT: Junior Alicia Rapisarda and her boyfriend, walking around holding hands.
Growing up too fast: The reality of dating early
The dangers of weed: From the body to the mind
SCREEN TIME: Junior Freguy Mauscarie spends his lunch time on his phone.
The mental price of scrolling
Why we should have an Esports team
Undervaluing females in sports
ALL SMILES: Head Varsity Volleyball Coach Jessika Lozada, smiling with the opposing team’s players.
New habits, new success: Coach Lozada’s rookie season as head coach
SWIMMING FOR SUCCESS: Freshman Ilan Moscovici, swimming in an outdoor pool during an event within the fall sports season.
Swim team beats the clock with regional champ performance
RIDIN' AROUND: Medical Trainer Juliana Edwards, driving a student to the sidelines of a night game at Ives Estates Park.
No timeouts: sports medicine clubs profound impact on the gridiron
The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike
The Student News Site of Dr. Michael M. Krop

The Lightning Strike
All content by Alan Imar
Students walk the track in support of gun control reform as a part of the "walk-out" movement, which aims to bolster support for gun control. More than two-hundred students circled the track starting at noon on Feb. 21.

Students walk-out, call for gun control

Alan Imar, Online Managing Editor
February 23, 2018

Students at nearly 50 schools around South Florida walked out of school midday to protest gun violence and bolster support for gun control. In solidarity...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, second from right, march in Selma. The Selma-to-Montgomery march was held in 1965.

To combat racism, come together as community

Black history month reminds us of the historical friendship between the African American and Jewish communities
Alan Imar, Online Managing Editor
February 6, 2018

In the morning hours of September 15, 1963, as four young African American girls were getting ready for the Sunday church service at the 16th Street Baptist...

(From left to right) Junior Hannah Bregman and ____ greet a bus of eighth graders. About 800 eighth graders came to Krop for "Lightning for a Day," an annual preview of high school.

(From left to right) Junior Hannah Bregman and ____ greet a bus of eighth graders. About 800 eighth graders came to Krop for "Lightning for a Day," an...

Security guard ____ Lindor talks to students outside the South Patio.

Security guard ____ Lindor talks to students outside the South Patio.

(From left to right) City of Aventura Commissioner Howard Weinberg, Chief Facilities Officer Jamie Torrens, Principal Allison Harley, School Board Representative Martin Karp and Superintendent Alberto Carvalho walk through rows of cheerleaders to break ground at the iPrep construction site on Nov. 6, 2017. Cheerleaders, NJROTC cadets and orchestra students greeted officials prior to the ceremony.

(From left to right) City of Aventura Commissioner Howard Weinberg, Chief Facilities Officer Jamie Torrens, Principal Allison Harley, School Board Representative...

Superintendent Carvalho delivers a speech to attendees of the iPrep groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 6, 2017 in the NJROTC room. Carvalho said that the GO Bond passed in 2012 is the first to have been so successful nationwide.

Superintendent Carvalho delivers a speech to attendees of the iPrep groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 6, 2017 in the NJROTC room. Carvalho said that the...

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is interviewed by CBS 4 News on the construction of Krop's iPrep Academy. The academy plans to open in the fall of 2018 and is open to current sophomores and freshman.

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is interviewed by CBS 4 News on the construction of Krop's iPrep Academy. The academy plans to open in the fall of 2018...

(From left to right) Orchestral Magnet students Christopher Wu, Eduardo Chocron, Alexander Khlovstov, Najuma Houchard and Rose Charles perform for the arrival of Superintendent Carvalho and school district representatives for the iPrep groundbreaking ceremony. Krop's iPrep academy plans to open in the fall of 2018.

(From left to right) Orchestral Magnet students Christopher Wu, Eduardo Chocron, Alexander Khlovstov, Najuma Houchard and Rose Charles perform for the...

English teacher Natalie Savage cares for June, a kitten found on campus in a pile of debris. Named after the juniors who found her, June will be taken to the Humane Society this afternoon.

English teacher Natalie Savage cares for June, a kitten found on campus in a pile of debris. Named after the juniors who found her, June will be taken...

A partial solar eclipse, where the moon only blocks part of the sun.

Krop’s solar eclipse policy

Everything students need to know about the first day of school.
Alan Imar
August 20, 2017

​Covering a 70-mile strip of land across the United States, people can witness a complete solar eclipse when the moon covers the sun. For those not on...

Supermoon Rising

Catch a supermoon tonight

Alan Imar
November 14, 2016

The year 1948 was full of surprises. Israel declared independence, the United States began an 11 month airlift into Berlin, Germany and  one could buy...

Students compete at FIU Model UN

Students compete at FIU Model UN

Alan Imar
March 11, 2016

For the past seven months, freshmen Nicole Shrem and Yoan Garnenkov along with sophomore Alan Imar mentored students from the Aventura Waterways Preporatory Academy...

Students rally for Rubio

Students rally for Rubio

Alan Imar
March 10, 2016

As the bell rang on Thursday, March 9 marking the end of the school day, seniors Veronika Bondarenko and Daniela Rojzman, as well as sophomore Alan Imar,...

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