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The McHenry Messenger

McHenry High School's student-written and -edited newspaper

The McHenry Messenger

McHenry High School's student-written and -edited newspaper

The McHenry Messenger

Upper Campus BioMed teacher Leah Pelletier shows of her class’s AI policy, which creates space for students to use AI in the classroom. MCHS is fine-tuning a policy that would allow students to use AI more often.

AI policy at MCHS still under development

Aubrey Butler, Opinions Editor March 16, 2026

Over the course of this school year, MCHS’s AI committee has been working to specify the AI policy. While it is important for the school to have a clear stance on AI, the lack of specificity in the meantime...

Students use their time during AIM for a variety of reasons, but how they spend their time should be up to them. If they don't use their time wisely, then they need to own the consequences.

Opinion | AIM for higher standards

Afton Ingraffia, Features Editor November 3, 2025

Having missed some school last week due to a college visit, junior Anthony Tapio was working extra hard in his AIM period to get some of his missing work done. He finishes up his physics homework and then...

With the phone policy being put in place this year, students were expected to put phone up but instead some chose not to follow this new rule.

Mobile disruptions

Ele Kinser, Staff Writer May 12, 2025

A student walks into class with her cellphone in hand. Today was a really important lecture, and as the teacher walked up to begin, she mentioned to students to put their phones either in their bags or...

Starbucks recently updated their cafe rules for the new year.

Starbucks implements new drink policies

McKenzie Woods, Copy Editor February 20, 2025

As a student walked through the bitter cold up to the Starbucks door they saw a new sign on the door. There are new rules now for Starbucks and one of them really affects the student. The student discovered...

Students have had a hard time getting on time and prepared for school during this 2024-2025 school year.

Opinion | Just show up

Afton Ingraffia, Features Editor December 11, 2024

A student wakes up on a dreaded Monday morning and decides they're too tired to go to school. They tell their parents and promptly go back to sleep. That same student wakes up to police cars outside talking...

Lack of agendas has little impact on students

Gianna Matassa, Editor – West Campus January 24, 2019
At the beginning of this school year, District 156 stopped providing agendas for their students. When I originally began this story, I thought losing the school-provided agendas would be a horrible thing, but as I researched the process, I began to rethink my stance on this issue.
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