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Resident alleges inconsistencies between district HHB counts and Agency of Education data
Summary
A community member told the Barre Unified Union School District board that harassment, hazing and bullying (HHB) incident counts the public saw differ sharply from Agency of Education (AOE) datasets and urged the board to change who receives HHB reports.
Steve Thompson told the Barre Unified Union School District board during public comment that the HHB (hazing, harassment and bullying) incident totals presented to the community differ substantially from the data the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) publishes. He said the discrepancy appears in local documents the district shared and in public records he obtained from the AOE.
Thompson said the district’s figures shown to the public through mid-November 2023 reflected “176 HHB investigations in just the first few weeks of school,” a total he said would represent nearly 30% of…
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