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Last year, three Merrick Avenue Middle School students allegedly spread false rumors online that a lewd video contained images of a girl who attended Merrick elementary schools before moving to a private school in seventh grade, according to a lawsuit the girl’s parents filed against the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District.
Family sues Central over alleged cyber-bullying
The parents of a girl who is now in high school, and who never attended the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, are suing the district after a handful of Merrick Avenue Middle School students allegedly circulated a “lewd” video defaming the girl during the 2012-13 school year. more
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Beatrice Brown (Kennedy), Alix Kozin (Calhoun), Rachel Ross (Calhoun), Erica Miller (Mepham) and Kiara Kaylor (Mepham) lit candles symbolizing the four pillars of the New York State Science Honor Society during an induction ceremony on May 19.
Central scientists’ work on display
Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District students recently came together to celebrate two groups of science students from Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools during Young Scientists Night on May 19. more
Let's give graduates some debt relief
As students throughout our nation and here on Long Island graduate from college, they hope to start the next phase of their lives gainfully employed. more
Team Andree gave it their all in the tug-of-war event.
Kennedy staffers compete for a cause
The Kennedy High School student government’s newest event featured more than 80 faculty members stuffing marshmallows in their mouths, running around a row of chairs in the gymnasium and more … more
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Wendy Tepfer, executive director of the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center, left, tested goggles used to track eye movement. Failing the test could indicate a concussion. She was assisted by Omarys Herasme-Parker, a field manager with the Brain Trauma Foundation.
Bellmore-Merrick Central District joins in national concussion study
The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District is taking part in a national study, conducted by the nonprofit Brain Trauma Foundation, that aims to more precisely map the number of high school athletes who suffer concussions. more
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Kennedy High School junior Mara Friedman sang Mozart’s “An Chloe” during the ceremony at her school.
Hundreds inducted into Bellmore-Merrick Central’s Honor Society
Hundreds of Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham students were inducted into their high schools’ chapters of the National Honor Society on April 9. The society recognizes students’ academic … more
Students across the state sat for English Language Arts exams earlier this month. 246 third- to eighth-graders in the Merricks' public schools refused to participate, at their parents' direction.
Common Core test refusals are up in Merrick
When New York state debuted new standardized tests for third- to eighth-graders in English and math last year, a handful of Merrick parents told school administrators that they would not allow their children to take them. Earlier this month, the number of students whose parents have joined this protest nearly doubled at Merrick Avenue Middle School, more than doubled in the North Merrick School District and more than tripled in the Merrick School District. more
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Mike and Rae Guzman of Bellmore dressed according to the Hawaiian theme at the annual senior citizens prom at Mepham High School on April 2.
Mepham SADD throws a senior citizen prom
More than 140 older adults from throughout Bellmore-Merrick were treated to a senior citizens prom at Mepham High School on April 2, courtesy of the school’s Students Against Destructive Decisions … more
Sacred Heart students Mia Campbell, far left, Sarah Tanchuck, Nicole Cody, Samantha Levano, Cassidy Pinder and Olayemi Akingboye, who gathered at the Not On Our Turf summit at St. Mary Louis Academy in Queens last November, will hold a candlelight vigil for female victims of human trafficking later this month. Kayla Walczyk was not pictured.
Lighting the way for women’s empowerment
With Women’s History Month coming to a close, seven young women at Sacred Heart Academy, an all-girls’ high school in Hempstead, were looking to write their own chapter as they prepared … more
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Our schoolchildren are seeing tests in their sleep
Almost every one of us has had the experience of watching a child, a grandchild or the children of friends suffer through the anxiety of continuous tests at every level of the educational ladder. more
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