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Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest
Outraged Parents Blast Officials At Lehigh County Board Meeting After School Employee's Arrest Outraged parents showed up to a school board meeting in Lehigh County to blast officials after news broke that a teacher had been arrested for secretly recording a student undressing in a school auditorium. Laura Warmkessel was just one of those parents. "You guys sit up here the majority of the time patting yourselves on the back and congratulating each other on how wonderful this school district is, but under the radar letting these monsters into our system, repeatedly," Warmkessel told the Parkland School District Board of Directors on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Click here to watch the meeting. …

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by Merriell Moyer
Schools
Handgun Found In Central PA High School Forces Closure For Days Handgun Found In Central PA High School Forces Closure For Days
Handgun Found In Central PA High School Forces Closure For Days Following a "systematic search" of a Central Pennsylvania school — with help from Pennsylvania and Maryland State Police — administrators have announced a full closure until Tuesday, Feb. 20, according to a press conference on the evening of Feb. 15.  The gun was shown in a photo to an assistant principal at Central Dauphin East High School by a male student around 8:45 a.m. on Feb. 15, police were immediately contacted and a lockdown was initiated, according to the school administrators and Pennsylvania State Police.  Until the handgun was located in the Harrisburg…

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by Jillian Pikora
Schools
Controversial Facebook Post Prompts Resignation Of PA School Board Member Controversial Facebook Post Prompts Resignation Of PA School Board Member
Controversial Facebook Post Prompts Resignation Of PA School Board Member A school board member in Pennsylvania has resigned following a Facebook post she made about Israel's military on Thursday, Nov. 16. In the now-deleted post, former Colonial School Board member Dr. Jamina "Mina" Clay called the Israel Defense Forces a terrorist organization and then listed the alleged atrocities being done to Palestinians, according to a screenshot shared by NBC10. Approximately 10 hours after her initial post, Clay issued an apology, also posted on her Facebook, reading in part: "Upon reflection and after having conversations with loved ones and friends, I understand that …

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Sexual Hazing 'Much More Widespread' Prompts PA School District To Cancel Football Season Sexual Hazing 'Much More Widespread' Prompts PA School District To Cancel Football Season
Sexual Hazing 'Much More Widespread' Prompts PA School District To Cancel Football Season An additional video of hazing at a central Pennsylvania high school prompts the district to reverse its decision and end its football season early.  The Middletown Area school district began investigating a hazing that happened on August 11, 2022—after a cellphone video film by high school football players was shared on social media— but on Wednesday, August 24, the school announced at least one more video.  Both videos show incidents of hazing happening in the "high school turf room for heat acclimation practice sessions," Dr. Chelton Hunter, Superintendent of Scho…

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by Jillian Pikora