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GILROY — In Gilroy Prep’s eighth-grade math class, there are no quiet rows of orderly desks facing an instructor. Instead, the room feels less like a classroom and more like

Gilroy Preps Squads model has students teaching each other under teacher supervision, boosting collaboration, soft skills, test scores and attendance rates.

Mr. Cecil Drennan Smithson, 79, of Readyville, Tennessee passed away on November 7, 2022.  He was born in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday, September 10, 1943. Preceding him in death were his father, Thomas "Leon" Smithson; mother, Della "Christine" Gaither Smithson Ash; and brothers, Charles Arthur Smithson, Jerry Smithson, Donnie Smithson,…