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☆ NJ school officials were aware of a 'culture of violence' among students before Adriana Kuch committed suicide: lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That culture included "physical assaults and attacks by students of students," the lawsuit says. The teen's family says school district officials "knew or should have known" that attacks within their schools, specifically Central Regional High School, "were being recorded and posted to various social media sites by other students, contrary to School Board policy." AdvertisementThe lawsuit, which names the Central Board of Education, the Central Regional High School's principal and other school officials as defendants, alleges negligence and accuses them of failing to protect Kuch. "It is the defendants' job to provide a safe and secure environment for the students at Central Regional High School," Kuch family attorney William Krais said in a statement. "It's clear this school has a serious bullying problem that none of the school administrators care to admit or address.

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MILAN, N.H. (AP) — Some of the Northeast’s best young ski jumpers took flight at the country’s oldest ski club on Sunday, continuing a comeback for the once-popular winter sport featuring speed, skill and sometimes spills. The Eastern Ski Jumping Meet took place at the Nansen Ski Club in the shadow of one of the nation's oldest jumps during Milan’s 102nd annual winter carnival in northern New Hampshire. They built the 172-foot (51-meter) “Big Nansen” jump in 1937 with government help and hosted Olympic trials a year later. In 2011 ski jumping returned to the collegiate level, welcoming women jumpers for the first time. Most of the people I see at (ski jump) clubs, especially the younger kids, are mostly girls,” she said.

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Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, an Israeli grandmother who was held hostage in Gaza for over two weeks, speaks to reporters a day after her release from captivity. Lifshitz explained how this culminated in the attack on Nir Oz in southern Israel on October 7. Not long after, “hordes” of Hamas fighters broke through the kibbutz’s “expensive” fences and kept coming in their “droves,” she said. Video Ad Feedback Video shows harrowing images from Nir Oz kibbutz after Hamas attack 05:36 - Source: CNNLifshitz is one of the community’s founders and worked as a photographer and a teacher at the regional high school, according to a Nir Oz community statement. Daniel Lifshitz said seeing his grandmother had shown him that other hostages need to be freed as soon as possible.

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DIGHTON, Mass.—The house on Maple Street where Airman First Class Jack Teixeira was arrested Thursday sits on a thickly wooded lot set far back from the road. By Friday, after law-enforcement agents and media descended on this small town, a loader backhoe blocked the driveway entrance near an empty flower cart. A 2020 graduate of Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School in southeastern Massachusetts, Airman Teixeira, 21 years old, was viewed by those who know him as a military enthusiast from a family who supports the military and its causes.

☆ After wasting thousands of taxpayer dollars, one Massachusetts school finally turns off its lights — left on for over a year
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Massachusetts school finally can turn off its lights, which have been on since August 2021 due to a technical glitch. "We are very much aware this is costing taxpayers a significant amount of money," a school official told NBC. Reflex Lighting, the company contracted to fix the lights, arrived at the school this week to reprogram the faulty system and begin turning off the lights, NBC Boston reported. Part of the issue was that ownership of the software company changed several times after the initial installation, according to NBC. "And yes, there will be a remote override switch so this won't happen again," Paul Mustone, president of Reflex Lighting, told NBC.

Minnechaug is the only high school in its district and serves 1,200 students from the towns of Wilbraham and Hampden. The original high school building, which dates back to 1959, was replaced with the current 248,000-square foot structure in 2012. One of the cost-saving measures the school board insisted on was a “green lighting system” run on software installed by a company called 5th Light to control the lights in the building. But in August 2021, staffers at the school noticed that the lights were not dimming in the daytime and burning brightly through the night. “The lights that are being referred to are the classroom lights, not the outdoor lights.

☆ A Massachusetts high school hasn't been able to turn off the lights for more than a year and a half, costing taxpayers thousands
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"We are very much aware this is costing taxpayers a significant amount of money," a school official told NBC. Approximately 7,000 lights inside Minnechaug Regional High School have remained on since August 24, 2021, when the software operating the lighting system failed, NBC News reported. Part of the issue was that ownership of the software company changed several times after the initial installation, according to NBC. But the new owner, Reflex Lighting, said it couldn't send contractors until the following year due to the pandemic. "And yes, there will be a remote override switch so this won't happen again," Paul Mustone, president of Reflex Lighting, told NBC.

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