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Book sparks controversy Parents claim reading choice promotes anti-police views pavement?” Soon after, the beating is “all over the news,” and the A b o o k c h o i c e o n t h e police officer, Paul Galluzzo, is S ew a n h a k a C e n t r a l H i g h threatened with accusations School District’s summer read- of brutality and racial prejuing list has angered some com- d i c e , a l t h o u g h Q u i n n , munity members who say it Rashad’s classmate, cannot promotes anti-police views. fathom how Galluzzo — who, The novel, “All as it happens, American Boys” helped raise him by Jason Reynolds a f t e r h i s f at h e r and Brendan died in AfghaniKiely, follows the stan — could do lives of two teensuch a thing. agers, Rashad and “This is sickenQuinn, after a ing,” Carey High police officer misSchool parent Tara takes Rashad, who Adamos posted on i s B l a ck , fo r a a Franklin Square shoplifter when KAY SANTANGelo Facebook group on he tries to buy a Parent July 23. “While we bag of chips at the are living in a challocal bodega. The lenging social clio f f i c e r a l s o “ m i s t a k e s mate, this book does not at all Rashad’s pleadings that he’s reflect the majority of police stolen nothing for belliger- officers.” ence, mistakes Rashad’s resisAdamos said that her tance to leaving the bodega as father, brother and uncle were resisting arrest and mistakes police officers for more than Rashad’s every flinch at every 25 years, and she has two famipunch the cop throws as fur- ly members who are currently ther resistance and refusal to active. “None of them ever had stay still as ordered,” accord- a n i n c i d e n t w i t h b e i n g ing to its description on Ama- accused of police brutality,” zon. “But how can you stay she wrote. “This is absolutely still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete Continued on page 9
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JANiYA DeShoMMeS wiTh Elmont Memorial High School Principal Kevin Dougherty after her graduation ceremony on Saturday.
Seniors graduate at a distance Sewanhaka holds July ceremonies for seniors By MeliSSA KoeNiG mkoenig@liherald.com
Though the graduation ceremonies were not what Sewanhaka Central High School District seniors had dreamed of for four years, the students still had the chance to cross a stage and receive their diplomas last Saturday. The seniors walked onto their respective schools’ football fields to “Pomp and Circumstance,” then sat with their parents six feet from
other families while wearing masks. Then they crossed a stage as district officials read their names and handed them their diplomas. “Today is certainly a day filled with conflicting emotions,” H. Frank Carey Principal Christopher Fiore told the 259 seniors. “Sadness comes first — I’m heartbroken that the seniors could not finish their time at Carey by experiencing the joys of being a senior in the springtime, I’m crushed by the fact that we
cannot be together as a graduating class, and I am dismayed by the fact that time and space will now separate us.” But, Fiore added, “elation and bliss need to rise above the sadness.” Students had not been in the school buildings since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, and district officials originally planned to hold individual graduation ceremonies at the end of Continued on page 3
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