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They Forget Fast Around There
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It seems sometimes that every school class has at least one member who tragically dies before graduation, and the class yearbook always has a fitting memorial to the departed classmate. Both my high school and college yearbooks had tributes to classmates. But one Minnesota middle school seems to have dispensed with that, much to the surprise of the family of a child who committed suicide: The school left the boy out of the yearbook. That followed the school rebuffing attempts by the family to do something at the school in the boy's memory -- plant a tree, install a bench, put up a photo. The school now says that they had no intent to leave him out... but they did. And the family says that it's too late now, that the school missed a chance to use the boy's death to educate classmates and parents about mental health. What SHOULD the school do to make this right? (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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