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Parents urge immediate security changes after student assaulted at offsite hockey game; board tasks safety director to develop plan
Summary
Multiple parents described a February 19 assault on a student at an offsite high-school hockey game and urged the Anchor Bay School District board to require event security; board and staff pledged follow-up and assigned the director of safety and security to develop plans for future events.
Parents of high-school students told the Anchor Bay School District Board of Education on Feb. 26 that inadequate security at an offsite hockey game on Feb. 19 left one student seriously injured and prompted calls for immediate changes to supervision at school-sponsored events.
Megan Blankhorn, a parent, described her son’s attack outside the hockey arena and said she received a call at 9:32 p.m. reporting that her son had been “jumped by 7” students and thought his nose might be broken. Blankhorn said she called 911 at 9:34 p.m. and that emergency responders arrived about 9:50 p.m. She reported the student has since suffered severe concussion symptoms and remains out of school. Blankhorn urged the district for “an explanation for why no security was present at a school-sponsored event” and demanded “immediate concrete changes to ensure that no other family has to experience what mine has endured.”
Another parent, Erica Schafer (Anchor Bay class of 1992), told the board the…
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