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A student at Port Townsend High School was diagnosed with MRSA, school officials said Thursday. Just hours later, the King County medical examiner cited MRSA as the cause of death of a man at a Seattle hospital. John F. Jones, 46, of Federal Way died from MRSA at Harborview Medical Centeron Wednesday, according to the King County Medical Examiner's Office. MRSA, short for "methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus" is ... known as the "superbug", as it is resistant to standard antibiotics and therefore difficult to treat. Doctors are trying to figure out how the teen contracted the bacteria. The teen's name and condition are not known.
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In early October 2001 defendant McGreevy, the president of the Board of Education, received a letter from Lauren Ashdown, a parent of a high school football player. Ashdown relayed stories she had heard of disturbing misbehavior in the boys' locker-room such as a "shampoo bottle [being] shoved up [a student's] rectum." Cioffi and another administrator investigated Ashdown's allegations. The investigation led to an October 12, 2001 interview with a student on the football team. The student, a 14-year-old freshman, told Cioffi that he had been "tea-bagged" by other football players. Tea-bagging is a hazing act -- indeed a form of sexual assault -- during which the victim is pinned down on the floor by several players while another player rubs his genitalia in the victim's face.
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Grayslake High School facilities will get a major cleaning over the Thanksgiving break in response to three confirmed cases of MRSA among students. Students were told to bring all personal belongings home from their lockers over the break to accommodate an "extensive, thorough" cleaning, according to a letter from district Supt. Catherine Finger. The far north suburban district has ... installed wall-mounted, waterless hand cleanser dispensers in each classroom.
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Prior to 1995, a student elected as SantaFe High School’s student council chaplain delivered a prayer over the public address system before each home varsity football game. Respondents, Mormon and Catholic students or alumni and their mothers, filed a suit challenging this practice and others under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. While the suit was pending, petitioner school district (District) adopted a different policy, which authorizes two student elections, the first to determine whether “invocations” should be delivered at games, and the second to select the spokesperson to deliver them. After the students held elections authorizing such prayers and selecting a spokesperson, the District Court entered an order modifying the policy to permit only nonsectarian, nonproselytizing prayer. The Fifth Circuit held that, even as modified by the District Court, the football prayer policy was invalid.
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High school football is one of most popular interscholastic sports at high schools in the United States and the second most popular in Canada right after ice hockey. The game's popularity with both audiences and students is widespread across both nations.
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The Hatboro-Horsham High School newspaper, Hat Chat, has been censored by school administrators following a column on flatulence. The teacher serving as advisor to the students who work on the paper was ... removed from her position.
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