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Peabody schools guarded by “multiple layers of security” By Christopher Roberson
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CHAMPIONS: Peabody High School Athletic Director Robert Bua holds the 3rd Annual Carlin Cup trophy with Tanners Kaydee Purcell, Sarah Buckley, Cassie Mirasolo, and Mae Norton shortly after the Lady Tanners shut out Bishop Fenwick, 4-0. See Carlin Cup hockey coverage on pages 8 & 9. (Advocate photo by Ross Scabin)
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n the days following the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Interim Superintendent of Schools Dr. Herbert Levine said there are “multiple layers of security” that protect the Peabody Public Schools. He said there are full-time police officers in each building as well as school adjustment counselors and emergency crisis teams. Levine also said staff members are currently going through Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate (ALICE) training, which teaches them how to react if an intruder ever enters one of the schools. Levine said the doors to each school are locked once school begins in the morning. Therefore, anyone wanting
to get inside during the day must be seen on camera and then buzzed in by that building’s secretary. In addition to the buzzer system, Levine said, anyone who walks into Higgins Middle School must first give his or her Driver’s License to the secretary, who then uses it to conduct a background check through a national database. Levine said he is working on implementing the same technology at the other schools in the district. “We’re confident that we do an awful lot in the Peabody Public Schools; we have a lot of good stuff in place,” he said, adding that students also come forward with suggestions. Levine said that of the district’s
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Jennifer Ravikumar shared her story about living with an addict on Feb. 20 during her presentation at the Peabody Institute Library of The Addiction of Loving an Addict. Ravikumar is also the owner of Barefoot Yoga Shala in Middleton and the founder of Yoga for Families of Addiction. (Advocate Photo by Christopher Roberson)
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ennifer Ravikumar recently shared the all-out struggle that she endured as her husband’s drinking problem spiraled out of control. At the Peabody Institute Library, during her Feb. 20 presentation of The Addiction of Loving an Addict, Ravikumar said she wrote letters to her husband every night politely asking him to stop drinking. However, she said he would always tear them up and throw
them away without a second thought. “He was emotionally abusing me every single night,” she said. Yet he would still take her out for dinner and buy her Michael Kors purses on the regular. All the while, her husband would continue to say that consuming alcohol was normal. Although the writing was on the wall, she could not bring herself to call her husband an alco-
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