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Thursday, December 20, 2012

New Jersey students show support for Sandy Hook

NEW MILFORD (WABC) -- Almost all of the middle school students at Solomon Schecter wore green and white to support the students and families at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

They are planning to do more to let the victims' families know they are not alone.

A group of sixth graders met with the school rabbi at the day school to discuss their feelings and ways they can help ease the pain of the families in Newtown. "We all have younger siblings or daughters or sons and we don't know what it's like to lose them, but we can imagine," Jesse Abed, a sixth grader, said.

Jesse and his friend Alexa used social media to encourage their friends to wear green and white to school on Monday, to support the students and teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary school.

"I wanted to help the families and show them we respect them and they're not alone," Alexa Wanderman said.

The 400 students at the Jewish day school said a special prayer at morning services for the Newtown community.

"May your presence be felt among all those who are grieving," Rabbi Fred Elias said.

And other students plan to mail letters, send gifts, and travel with their families up to Newtown to offer their condolences and support.

"I want to do as much as I can to make them feel just a little bit better," Abed said.

The school's spiritual leaders are encouraging students to do more, to reach out to strangers during their darkest days.

"Despite this tragedy, we can, with our collective efforts, repair our world," Elias said.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Parsippany students protest federal lunch program

MORRIS PLAINS (WABC) -- Some students who usually buy hot lunches are now brown bagging it instead. They are upset over the schools smaller portions and higher prices.

"We're all for healthy foods..but if the portion is smaller the price should be smaller," Brandon Faris, a senior, said.

The majority of students at Parsippany Hills High School made their feelings clear. Barely a customer bought lunch from the Farm Stand, the Solar Grill and the Pizza Zone in the high school's cafeteria.

"No one was buying food, they had this Chinese food set up, nobody got any," senior Joe Hunt said.

Mark Vidovich says he understands. He is president of Pomptonian, the food company providing the school spread.

"They say it's not personal, and they want to make a statement," Vidovich said.

A statement about the federal healthy hunger free kids act of 2010 to make school lunches more nutritious. Pomptonian, serves more than 80 districts that must abide by new rules.

"They introduced the new max on bread, entrees shrank by 33 percent," Vidovich said.

Like a smaller pizza, more carrots, less pasta, more salad and green beans, and no bread. The government raised lunch prices, Vidovich says, because it costs more to serve more fruits and veggies. But you're talking about high schoolers.

"At the end of the meal, you're not full," one student said.

"For $4.50, I can go to Wendy's and get a full meal," said another.

Vidovich says his company raised the concerns to the government. The kids want to make sure it's heard loud and clear.

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Students charged in New Jersey teen's suicide

Eyewitness NewsMORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (WABC) -- Three students are accused of assaulting, robbing and threatening a 15-year-old student at Morristown High School who committed suicide, officials said.

Lennon Baldwin, a freshman at Morristown High School, killed himself back in March at the home where he lived with his parents and older brother Robby.

According to investigators, Baldwin's death came after weeks of bullying. One of the defendants, a classmate, allegedly assaulted Baldwin at Morristown High School on March 6. The incident was captured on surveillance video. The defendant was suspended from school two days later.

"This case again underscores our need as a society to eradicate the bullying of our youth, as regrettable consequences such as this case are far too numerous to be anywhere near acceptable," Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.

Authorities said the suspended student made numerous attempts to contact Baldwin to instruct him to tell school officials that the incident was a joke. The next day, Baldwin did tell the Dean of Students that the assault was a joke and the defendant was playing a prank on him.

On March 9, police say the defendant from the previous incident and two other teens met Baldwin at the Century 21 parking garage, where they threatened and robbed him, telling him it was punishment for the suspension over the March 6th incident.

The three teens were arrested two weeks later. Michael Conway, 19, was charged as an adult with making false statements to police. The other two defendants face robbery, theft, terroristic threats and related charges. They remain under house arrest, charged as juveniles.

Baldwin killed himself on March 28. More than 500 people turned out for his funeral. Baldwin was a champion bowler, and his family still displays his trophies in the window. He also loved skateboarding and animals.

The two students and Conway are not charged with bullying, but they are charged with crimes that under the state's new anti-bullying law fit the very definition.

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

2 students charged with rape at NJ school

Eyewitness NewsCLIFTON, New Jersey -- Officials on Friday will ask students at a northern New Jersey high school to come forward if they have information about a rape on school grounds.

Two Clifton High School students are accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old in a stairwell during school hours in May.

Police say the girl waited several weeks to report the incident because she was afraid.

Police have charged 19-year-old Jaime Urbina and a 17-year-old with aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and criminal restraint.

Urbina is held on $150,000 bail. The 17-year-old, whose name has not been released because of his age, is held at a juvenile detention center.

Superintendent Richard Tardalo told The Record newspaper officials are reviewing security at the school, which has 3,400 students.

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