A 37% high school graduation rate, one of the lowest in America - on par with juvenile justice centers and a handful of the nation's poorest inner city schools. Welcome to Hempstead, Long Island.

I was just talking with him about this following reading this. Holy crap, Bellport has been host to some serious shit. There were the kids who burned the middle school down back when it was still the high school, the 7th grade social studies teacher who allegedly gave kids a school "physical", the AP who was sleeping with students mothers who died in the last few years and who some alumni rallied around renaming the high school after despite the long history of his racism, the librarian who was sleeping with students... I mean it just goes on and on. The guy I know she's to have had his fingers on the pulse of what was happening in that school from the English teacher who was such a morning alcoholic that she was drinking in front of classes to the 12th grade social studies teacher who had to the class her suicide plans.

Very glad to hear that sort of nonsense isn't still happening there.

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