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Parents tell board of assaults and weapon incident at high school, call for tougher discipline
Summary
Multiple speakers described a serious in-school assault involving a knife and questioned disciplinary decisions; a parent said her son was suspended after defending himself and another parent described ongoing threats.
Several parents and community members used the public-comment period to report violent incidents at Fayetteville-Manlius High School and to press the board and superintendent for clearer discipline and communication.
Parent Jason Held described what he said was an assault with a knife on his child and said the school had characterized the incident as a "verbal altercation" before local authorities described it differently. Held, a combat veteran,…
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