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Teacher being investigated for duct taping student to chair BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
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Lake Washington High School teacher is on paid administrative leave after being accused of duct taping a male student to his chair on May 29, Lake Washington
School District officials have confirmed. The district heard about the incident after another teacher overheard the male student talking later that day about what happened to him. “Physically constraining students is completely
unacceptable,” said district spokeswoman Kathryn Reith. “I believe it would be a violation of our Human Dignity Policy. It may fall into the state’s code of professional conduct for teachers under disregard of generally recognized professional standards.”
KIRO 7 reported the biology teacher was frustrated with the student, which prompted the taping. LWHS student Roland Munsil told KIRO the teacher taped the boy multiple times and that he didn’t start complaining until “people started taking
his stuff.” Munsil said at least one student drew on the back of the boy’s neck before he eventually took the tape off and left the class. Officials with the district immediately began investigating the teacher’s role in the incident; however,
student discipline may also be necessary, said Reith. Because there are stringent laws protecting the student’s privacy, such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, she could not verify many details of the male student who was al[ more DUCT TAPE page 3 ]
Hundreds fight ‘C’ word at Relay for Life event BY ANDY NYSTROM Reporter Newspapers
The calm atmosphere changed dramatically when Bree Casey asked people to unleash a barrage of noise for a full minute. “Scare cancer. Let them know we’re not going to stop until it’s gone,” Casey, 18, told the crowd from the speakers’ podium at the start of the Relay for Life 24-hour event Saturday at Redmond High. Screaming and clapping ensued among the 33-team, 320-person crowd from the Redmond and Kirkland areas. The event kicked off at noon on Saturday and ran through 8 a.m. on Sunday.
At press time, the group had raised $94,670.69 for the American Cancer Society. Casey, a Redmond resident, not only spoke at the event, but she was a member of the Hunting for a Cure team, chaired the Survivor committee and co-chaired the Fight Back committee. Her mother, Michelle, co-chaired the Relay for Life event. Michelle took the microphone to discuss the many local cancer survivors before they walked a lap – led by the Redmond High cheer squad – before the teams began their trek. [ more RELAY page 13 ]
Kirkland’s Eunice Hostetter, front left, a 10-year breast cancer survivor, walks with her sister, Liz Raubuch, right, a caregiver, during the Relay for Life event at Redmond High School on June 1. ANDY NYSTROM, Reporter Newspapers
Kirkland residents oppose banning plastic bags, study reveals rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
Kirkland residents have spoken: Leave plastic bags alone. During a recent phone survey from the city of Kirkland, 69 percent of 407 residents opposed the ban of plastic shopping bags, while
90 percent favored encouraging citizens to voluntarily reduce their bag use instead. From May 21-23, employees from Elway Research, Inc. – the same research firm that led the Seattle plastic bag survey – called adult residents at random with a 16 question recycling survey. Of the 67 percent who
opposed charging a fee for plastic bags, 67 percent also said they’d be willing to pay something, while 33 percent said they would not pay anything, an option not offered in the questionnaire. “I hate going to Seattle and you have to pay 15 cents [for paper bags],” said Shaun Hanning, who grasped a
plastic bag on Monday following a shopping trip at the Parkplace QFC in Kirkland. “I’d be pretty sad if they took them away, but at the same time it’s bad for the environment. Maybe they should make one that, like, dissolves in the water.” In March, the Kirkland City Council directed city
staff to hold a complete study on whether Kirkland should or should not be a candidate for taking action on either banning or charging for plastic bags. Deputy Mayor Doreen Marchione requested the study to the Public Works and Parks and Human [ more PLASTIC page 13 ]
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