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Honors for MacArthur’s top two seniors nal for the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers.

This month, MacArthur High Looney also has been involved School in Levittown will be say- with a number of extracurricuing goodbye to its senior class of lar activities at MacArthur. For 2022, and graduating at the top of three years, she was a member of this class are Valedictorian Sum- the varsity soccer team. For two mer Looney and years, she competed Salutatorian Anna in varsity track and Conway. field, serving as They were named senior captain for the the class’s top two team and leading it academic students to two county chamvaledictorian and pionships. Looney salu when their also served as coweighted grade point president of the Sciaverages were calcuence Olympiad, and lated. Looney MacArthur was achieved a GPA of among the top 10 103.8, while Conway ANNA CoNwAY teams in this compewas not far behind salutatorian tition in Nassau with an average of County last year and 103.5. competed at the state Prior to being named valedic- level. She was a member of the torian, Looney received a num- National Honor Society, the Math ber of academic distinctions at Honor Society and the World LanMacArthur. At the 2020 Island guage Honors Society, and has Youth Summit, she won Best also been recognized as an AP Overall Science Paper, along with Scholar for her high scores on AP Oceanside student Matthew exams.

Friedman, for a science piece that Looney will be attending Renswas published in an academic selaer Polytechnic Institute to journal. She also placed third at study environmental science. In the Nassau Community College the fall of 2021, she won the RPI Science Fair and had an article Medal Award, a scholarship that published in the Middle State entitles her to $30,000 of tuition Geographer, the academic jourContinued on page 9

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ElEVENtH-grAdEr JAmES toSCANo, winner of the Congressional App Challenge, displayed his mental health app, DailyBuddy.

Seaford High junior wins Congressional App Challenge By mICHAEl mAlASZCZYK mmalaszczyk@liherald.com

Seaford High School junior James Toscano won’t need an app to describe how he’s feeling after recently winning a prestigious contest sponsored by none other than the United States Congress.

Toscano was the winner of the Congressional App Challenge for New York’s 2nd Congressional District, which encompasses southeastern Nassau County and southwestern Suffolk, and includes Seaford.

Toscano created the app DailyBuddy, which encourages users to share their day-to-day feelings and emotions. According to Toscano,

users should write down exactly how they feel on a particular day and how the day went overall. DailyBuddy takes the place of talking to someone about their feelings — especially if they don’t want to talk at all. It also offers motivational tips.

Since 2016, Congress has sanctioned a district-by-district app challenge that encourages students interested in computer science to create and code their own apps. More than 14,000 students in 48 states took part in the challenge.

Some of the notable congressional representatives who got involved are former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Tim Ryan and Seth Moulton, as well as Ed Royce, Mimi WalContinued on page 10

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What’s up next door and around the corner

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TimoThy Saulpaugh, anThony Pace, Sean Urban, Jacob Oates, Brian Wise, Bryant Wong, and Michael Leighton stand with their certificates.

Seaford Boy Scouts make Eagle Scout The rank of Eagle Scout is the highest honor one can achieve in the Boy Scouts of America. Some notable Eagle Scouts include President Gerald Ford, astronaut Neil Armstrong, filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and Justice Stephen Breyer. On June 11, a number of Scouts from Seaford’s Troop 239 received this honor at their Eagle Scout Court of Honor Ceremony.

The new Eagle Scouts were Timothy Saulpaugh, Anthony “Buddy” Pace, Sean Urban, Jacob Oates, Brian Wise, Bryant Wong, and Michael Leighton.

These seven young men climbed through the ranks of Boy Scouts before completing their Eagle Scout projects to make the highest rank. Some of them had achieved the rank several years ago, with the ceremony put off until now due to the pandemic.

For their projects, Timothy Saulpaugh built a new set of wooden bleachers for Seaford High School’s baseball field. Anthony Pace build pandemic-friendly seating outside Seaford High School to allow students to congregate while respecting social distancing. Sean Urban built lawn games for the Eden/Genesis School in East Meadow. Brian Wise refurbished the Seaford Middle School Four Chaplains Memorial, adding a garden. Jacob Oates built a greenhouse and garden for the St. Rose of Lima Church in Massapequa. Bryant Wong refurbished and built wheelchair-accessible planting tables at the Memorial Garden at the Hagedorn Little Village School. Michael Leighton refurbished the basement of Nassau County Police Department’s Seventh Precinct into a gym – the precinct’s previous gym had been destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Legislators Steve Rhoads and Rose Walker attended this ceremony, along with Charles Wroblewski of the Seaford Lions Club.

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The Troop 239 Color Guard presents the flags to commence the Eagle Scout Court of Honor.

ScouTmaSTer BryanT Wong embraces his son, Bryant Wong, after placing the Eagle Scout pin on his uniform. legiSlaTor STeve rhoadS speaks at the podium while Legislator Rose Walker presents the Eagle Scouts with a certificate.

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Do you know a hero? Someone who took extraordinary action to save a life or perform an unselfish and extraordinary act for a family member, friend, co-worker or a stranger? An act that changed a person’s destiny, or made a community impact.

If so, then submit that person’s name by Monday, June 20 to the AmeriCourtesy American Red Cross can Red Cross, giving them a chance to be honored at the 2022 Long Island the aMericaN red Cross seeks submissions Heroes Among Us gala set for Thurs- to honor a Long Island hero at its Sept. 22 gala. day, Sept. 22.

To be eligible, that person’s heroic or executive. “We are proud to shine a light courageous action needs to have taken on one of our exceptional neighbors from place between July 1 last year, and the end Nassau or Suffolk counties, an everyday of this past May 30. Nominees need to live hero — or a group of individuals who in either Nassau or Suffolk counties, and acted together — whose actions made a agree to complete a criminal background life-changing difference in someone’s life.” check administered by the Red Cross if Heroes are expected to be chosen by the selected. end of July. A preferred hero and two Those who move forward in the selec- alternate heroes will be selected, that way tion process will share their heroic story if one ultimately declines to be honored, on video, and receive the Heroes Award at organizers will reach out to the runner-up. the gala. They’ll also have a chance to talk The Sept. 22 gala begins at 6 p.m., at the to reporters, and gain some much- Oheka Castle, 135 W. Gate Drive, Huntingdeserved publicity for what they accom- ton. Individual tickets start at $400. plished.

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Wantagh, Seaford students win Liberty Awards Liberty New York Water, in partnership with the New York chapter of the National Association of Water Companies, awarded six scholarships to high achieving high school seniors pursuing a college degree in a field related to the water industry. Two of these award recipients were from Wantagh and Seaford, respectively.

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Tom Suozzi ready to solve problems in Albany

By MICHAEL HINMAN mhinman@liherald.com

Tom Suozzi’s path to the governor’s mansion won’t be an easy one — especially since he’ll have to win a June 28 Democratic primary that includes a popular incumbent, Kathy Hochul.

But Suozzi isn’t deterred, convinced that Hochul is vulnerable thanks to a few missteps and what he says is a hard lean to the left since her ascension following Andrew Cuomo’s resignation.

“Kathy Hochul was wrong for the job,” Suozzi told a team of reporters in the Herald Roundtable session. “She came in saying, ‘You know, I’m going to be a breath of fresh air. And there’s going to be the most transparent, most ethical government in the history of New York. I’m not going to be Andrew Cuomo.’”

But then Hochul passed what Suozzi called the state’s “most secretive budget” in decades, which included what he described as a “billion-dollar” giveaway to the Buffalo Bills for a new stadium.

“There was no public hearing,” Suozzi said. “It was the biggest giveaway in the history of the NFL.” The 59-year-old has represented a good portion of Nassau County as a congressman since 2017, eight years he completed two terms as Nassau’s county executive, helping to quell a governmental financial collapse. He first took elected office in

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u.s. rEp. ToM Suozzi says he’s leaving Congress so he can fix what’s broken in Albany — even if that means upending the incumbent governor from his own party, Kathy Hochul.

1994, as mayor of Glen Cove, where he earned high marks for his environmental efforts in cleaning up old industrial sites.

“Nassau County was rated the worstrun county in America when I got there,” Suozzi said. “I turned it around, and got it into the ‘A’ ranks. I left with the lowest crime rate in the history of Nassau County. I turned this county around.

“I’ve been in Congress for five and a half years,” he added, “and I’ve given up Congress to run for governor because I just feel so strongly about what’s wrong with our state, and it needs to be fixed.”

In fact, it’s Congress where Suozzi says

most of his preparation to take over as governor took place. He is vice chair of the House’s Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of 58 congressional members evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, with the hope of bringing about more bipartisan consensus.

Among the caucus’s successes include President Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, Suozzi said, which made it through both chambers last year.

Suozzi’s biggest focus in his primary challenge, however, is crime. He opposes the state’s cashless bail policy, and even took heat last month for tying bail reform

to the May 14 shooting in a Buffalo supermarket that claimed the lives of 10 people.

Talking to the Herald Roundtable, Suozzi instead blamed Hochul for not enforcing existing “red flag” laws that would remove guns from those who authorities believed could threaten the safety of others.

“It’s not been implemented,” Suozzi said. “We have to teach the cops. We have to teach the teachers. We have to teach the social workers, the mental health people.

We have to teach the family members that we have this great tool, and we can take the guns away from people who are mentally unstable.”

One recent study of congressional primaries showed that the chance of an incumbent being ousted in a primary is virtually nonexistent. But then again, this is New York, where incumbency doesn’t guarantee much of anything.

“I do things to build relationships,” Suozzi said. “I won’t compromise my values, and I’m not going to vote for something I don’t believe in. And having been doing politics since I was elected mayor of Glen Cove in 1993, I know how to get stuff done.”

Andrew Giuliani says New York ready for change

By MICHAEL HINMAN

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New York hasn’t backed a Republican governor since George Pataki was reelected for the second time some 20 years ago. But Andrew Giuliani is convinced the Democratic policies under longtime Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Kathy Hochul, have changed the viewpoint of many voters in the state, who are living with higher crime rates, historically high inflation, and ongoing coronavirus pandemic restrictions that even cost Giuliani a chance to participate in a recent televised debate.

“I love looking at every single independent poll that has not been paid for by a competitor of mine that either has us winning this race or is within the margin of error,” the 36-year-old former Trump administration official told a team of reporters at a Herald Roundtable session. “I think it’s been really a tribute to the fact that at the very beginning of the campaign, we focused on trying to meet with as many of the 2.9 million registered Republicans — and frankly, the over 10 million New York voters. It hasn’t exclusively been Republicans. It’s been conservatives and non-affiliated independents, and certainly any Democrats that are looking at voting Republican.”

The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Giuliani was first hired by President Donald Trump as an associate director of the White House public liaison office before being promoted to special assistant.

Herald Community Newspapers provided a chance for all of New York’s gubernatorial candidates to meet with a select editorial team to present their views and answer questions.

The responses of the other candidates who took part in the roundtable sessions will be published next week.

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ANdrEw GIuLIANI Looks to be the first Republican to return to the governor’s mansion since George Pataki finished his third and final term in 2006.

Like his father, Giuliani has focused much of his campaign on crime, lambasting the cashless bail system, saying he would do away with it the moment he was sworn into office.

“On Day One,” he said, “I have pledged that I will sit down with Carl Heastie and Andrea Stewart-Cousins” — the speaker of the State Assembly and the State Senate majority leader — “and tell them very simply that unless there’s a full repeal of bail reform on my desk, I will not be funding their top priorities in our upcoming budget priorities.”

As far as the state budget is concerned, Giuliani pledges to carve out $5 billion to be used solely at the discretion of local or county law enforcement. “Let’s say a

sheriff ’s office is not getting the resources they need,” he said. “They can tap into the state to get those resources.

“Look, New York state leads the country in net out-migration, and that’s not just because of crime. But I do think that’s one of the main reasons why, under an Andrew Giuliani administration, we will look to curb that on Day One.” Giuliani would also try to oust Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who has been tasked with investigating some of Trump’s business dealings in the state.

As far as guns are concerned, however, Giuliani is not prioritizing stricter gun-control measures. Even after the May 14 mass shooting that claimed 10 lives in Buffalo, Giuliani says the prob-

lem is rooted in illegal guns — something law enforcement has failed to get under control.

“When I think about the overall defunding of the police movement, one of the things that this does is it makes it tougher for police to proactively police,” he said. “To have the resources necessary to actually get some of these weapons out of the hands of the criminals that are actually doing most of the crime.”

If Giuliani were elected governor, he would immediately face a heavily Democratic State Legislature that could curtail much of what he has planned. But that’s not something he expects to be a problem for long.

“I do think both of these super-majorities will cease to exist in 2023,” he said of the Assembly and senate. “I look at the state senate (district) lines, and I’m very confident that we will win back seats in the state senate. And who knows? With the right guy at the top of the ticket, we may even challenge to win the state senate back.”

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events and activities

community update Friday, June 17

Thursday, June 23

Third Eye Blind Concert

Weekly Mahjong

Third Blind Eye will be performing at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theaer from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. For tickets, please visit livenation.com/event/ G5vVZ97ri-sZo/third-eye-blind-summer-gods-tour-2022

The JULIETS are back playing Mahjong and cards at Congregation Beth Tikvah, 3710 Woodbine Avenue, Wantagh, starting May 5 and every Thursday from 11:30 until 4 pm. For information contact the office at 516-785-2445 or email mahjonggCBT@yahoo.com. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is needed for newcomers, but masks are optional. A contribution of $5 per person is required.

Saturday, June 18 DNA Learning Connection Events Bideawee, one of the country’s oldest and most respected animal welfare and pet adoption organizations, is hosting guided walking tours of its Pet Memorial Park at 3300 Beltagh Ave., in Wantagh at 2 p.m. The guided tours will explore the grave sites of many beloved pets who call Bideawee their final resting place. The tours, led by Ray Cushmore, Chief Operating Officer and VP Finance and Administration at Bideawee, will feature Sarge, a Belgian Shepherd and army hero of the WWII Canine Corps who was buried with full military honors, Checkers, the Cocker Spaniel credited with saving Richard Nixon’s political career in 1952 and more. To register visit www.bideawee. org/pet-memorial-park-walking-tour.

Seaford farmers market The Seaford farmers market is back from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. The market is located at the Ra ilroad Street East End of Parking Lot of Seaford Railroad Station Corner of Washington Avenue and Sunrise Highway.

KIDZ BOP Live 2022 Kidz Bop will be performing at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. To pruchase tickets, please visit livenation. com/event/G5vVZ9FzGFPFa/kidz-boplive-2022

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Free museum passes from Seaford library The Seaford Public Library offers free museum passes to cardholders 18 years or older and in good standing to places such as the Cradle of Aviation.

Monday, June 20 Making a shell mosaic At the Wantagh Public Library, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., learn how to make a shell mosaic using salt dough.

7:45 to 10:30 a.m. They will provide all the materials, and attendees will join a staff member to the parts of our environment that need the most assistance. Plan to arrive at 7:45am to avoid the 8am parking fee. To register visit jonesbeachenc.org/events

Sunday, June 19

Tuesday, June 21

Father’s Day at Gatsby

Wednesday, June 22

Doobie Brothers

Tai Chi

Head down Gatsby on the Ocean at 2000 Ocean Pkwy., in Wantagh for a Father’s Day brunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be breakfast offerings, an antipasto table, salads, raw seafood bar, carving board, entrees and a kids menu. For tickets visit https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/fathers-day-atthe-gatsby-tickets-322254009417.

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The Doobie Brother’s Pat Simmons and Tom Johnston will be reuniting with Michael McDonald and John McAfee for a concert at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater at 6 p.m.

Beach cleanup Help the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center at 150 bay Parkway in Wantagh clean up the beach from

Join Marvin at the Wantagh Public Library at 9:30 a.m. for a weekly Tai Chi for Arthritis program geared for seniors, but all are welcome. Tai Chi combines slow-moving with deep breathing and is beneficial in increasing body strength, balance, and posture. Tai Chi can also help you reduce stress and increase relaxation. To register email ismith@wantaghlibrary.org.

Escape Room JThe Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center, located at 150 Bay Parkway in Wantagh, will be hosting an escape room from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. The escape room is submarine-themed.

For more information please visit parks.ny.gov/events/event aspx?e=22-32017.0

Preschool Pals The Wantagh Public Library is hosting a storytime, craft, and activity session from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. Children must be at least 3 years old. To register, please visit https://www.wantaghlibrary.org/programs-events-2/

HAvING AN EvENT? Items on the Community Update pages are listed free of charge. The Herald welcomes listings of upcoming events, community meetings and items of public interest.

All submissions should include date, time and location of the event, cost, and a contact name and phone number.

Submissions can be emailed to mmalaszczyk@liherald.com

Seaford’s Unites Skates of America will be hosting an array of themed skating events.

Check out all the concerts being performed at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater this summer.

Congregation Beth Tikvah offers ASL interpreting Shabbot services every third Saturday at 10 a.m.

Dont’ forget to look at all the Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center has to offer.

Mulcahy’s Pub and Concert Hall will have Happy Hour every Friday. Live music starts at 6:00 p.m.

Looney and Conway are MacArthur’s top two

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the naSSau county Council of School Superintendents honored local valedictorians and salutatorians on June 3.

looney wins rPi Medal

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Macarthur valedictorian SuMMer Looney.

Valedictorian Summer Looney won the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal, which earned her a scholarship.

Macarthur Salutatorian anna Conway.

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For Looney, to have achieved this distinction is a testament to her upbringing. “My mom read to me every night as a kid,” she said.

Conway said she feels the same way, noting that she can remember studying in the car as a kid while her mother drove her to soccer practice.

Neither Looney nor Conway could name just one person who inspired them the most, although both said that their parents played the biggest role in their success.

“To just name one person who inspired me would be a disservice to the rest of them,” Conway said. “Everyone who helped me get here is just spectacular.”

Conway was also involved in a number of extracurricular activities at MacArthur, having played varsity tennis and serving as team captain for two years. Conway also played violin in the MacArthur chamber orchestra, earning the distinction of section leader. She was a member of Science Olympiad with Looney and was also a member of numerous honor societies, including the National Honors Society, the Tri-M Music Honor Society, the Math Honor Society and the World Language Honor Society.

Conway is also the recipient of a few writing awards, including two Silver Key Awards and one honorable mention at the New York Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Conway will be attending Vassar College to study neuroscience, although she had been torn between neuroscience and English. “I hope I can just do something that’ll make a positive impact on other people’s lives,” Conway said.

On June 3, both Looney and Conway were honored for their outstanding academic achievements at the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents’ Celebrating Excellence Breakfast, at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury.

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Toscano is recognized for his app skills district website and immediately wished ters and Hakeem Jeffries. The program’s him congratulations. James has high-levcurrent co-chairs are Jennifer Wexton el programming skills and, in my class, always goes above and beyond what is and Young Kim. In 2021, the contest yielded 2,101 func- expected of students.”

Stephens also called DailyBuddy “a tioning apps created by students across creative, unique, and supportall the Congressional districts ing app that is sensitive to involved. our times.” Toscano said that Toscano found out about the teenage mental health crithis challenge while researchsis brought on by the paning computer science-based demic helped inspire him to scholarships. When he saw code this app. that the 2nd District particiIn Stephens’ Introduction pates in the challenge, he to Game Design class, sturesearched previous winners dents learn how to code with to see what they had done and found inspiration for Daily- ryan sTephens the programming language Python, which Stephens feels Buddy.

Math Teacher, is easier for students than Since it was not a school Java programming languagproject, Ryan Ste phens, Seaford High es.

Toscano’s math teacher at School “Python is perfect for an Seaford High School who also introductory class,” Stephens teaches computer science, did not find out about Toscano’s participation said. “It’s accessible, the syntax is a bit more basic, and it’s just overall not intimuntil after he had won the award.

“I used what I learned from Mr. Ste- idating.”

Toscano’s success may have spurred a phens’ class to code it,” Toscano said.

When Toscano got the call from Congress- resurgence of interest in computer sciman Andrew Garbarino, who represents ence at Seaford High School, which was the second district, he initially thought it hurt by the pandemic.

“I think it’s an exciting thing to show was a spam call from Washington D.C., only to pick up the phone and discover he students that there are opportunities open to you if you decide to pursue comwas the district-wide winner.

“James is an intrinsically motivated puter science,” Stephens said. “I think student,” Stephens said. “I found out James spearheaded that here in Seaford, about him winning the challenge from the showing that there are awards and opporcontinued from front page

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ames is an intrinsically motivated student.

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James Toscano, righT, used what he learned in his computer science class, taught by math teacher Ryan Stephens, to code his app. tunities available in this growing field.”

The Seaford High School Computer Science Club has also grown this year in comparison to last year, and Toscano’s award may have contributed to that as well. According to Stephens, the club used to partake in an annual contest at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue, which was

canceled due to the pandemic. The Congressional App Challenge could grow to replace that, thanks to Toscano, he said.

While Toscano is not yet certain about what college he will be attending, he wants to pursue computer science, and is looking at the programs at Binghamton University.

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Wantagh High School Principal Paul Guzzone won the Administrator of the Year Award by the Nassau Counselors’ Association for his support of the guidance program. Franki Muzio, Wantagh’s director of guidance, nominated him for the award.

Guzzone was presented with the award at the associations end-of-theyear dinner on June 6.

The award is given to school administrators who provide support to the schools’ guidance program. As principal, Guzzone has worked with the guidance department on initiatives such as the freshman experience and a revamped course catalog. Guzzone also follows an open-door policy for students which provides them with a trusted adult to turn to for support.

The freshman experience program was launched this year. Under this program, ninth graders receive lessons from guidance counselors on topics such as college and career planning, effective communication, social media awareness, and time management skills. These lessons replaced a ninth grade study hall period.

“We have taken advantage of that gap and filled it with something meaningful for our freshmen,” Guzzone said.

Guzzone also revamped freshman orientation to be broken up into smaller groups of incoming freshman to encourage more questions asked.

The new course catalog, accessible online, contains links and videos that allow students to get a feel for classes they may be interested in taking.

Prior to his time at Wantagh, Gazzone was associate principal and director of school counseling in Oceanside, as well as a member of the district’s mental health and wellness task force.

“To be recognized, in the short amount of time I’ve been at Wantagh High School, for the work we’ve done means a lot to me,” Guzzone said.

“Without the support of the entire team, including my fellow administrators, teachers and guidance counselors, none of this would be possible. I would also like to thank the Wantagh community for their continued support in helping us achieve our goals.”

Courtesy Wantagh School District

Wantagh high School Principal Paul Guzzone received the Nassau Counselors’ Association “Administrator of the Year” award.

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Young kids play so naturally. They jump, run, skip, dance, sing, leap, roughhouse, and roll around. They delight in rhythm and enjoy being silly. They don’t worry about being in control. They just want to be.

Adults, in contrast, want to be in control. And find it hard to just be. They think they should be doing, viewing it as a waste of time if they haven’t accomplished anything productive.

Except for summer. Summertime is when many adults give themselves permission to play, letting the kid inside of them run free.

They spend time at the shore or the mountains to be — not to do. This time helps adults let go of trying to control it all and instead become more resilient, refreshed, rejuvenated … and creative.

If summertime feels so good, you might try using it inda as a model to feel freer all year round. To let go of the urge to always be in control. To allow yourself to be more spontaneous and adventurous instead of endlessly responsible.

Did I just hear you say, “That would be nice, but look at all my responsibilities. Somebody has to take care of these matters.” True. So, by all means, be an adult when you need to be an adult. But let your inner child have time to frolic in the sun.

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bee, or ball playing? Was it delighting in motion, enjoying the sheer pleasure of just running around? Was it an adventurous game? Was it a dramatic scenario in which you acted out different types of characters?

Now that you’re an adult, do you keep yourself so busy that play feels like a waste of time? Or, is your idea of playing only participating in competitive sports? And does that start out fine, but become oppressive when you become critical of yourself ? Have you forgotten how to play without your self-worth being on the line?

Some adults tune is to what real play is like only when they’re frolicking with pets or young kids.

Such play has no winner, no loser. It’s simply amusing, it’s clowning around, it’s letting your hair down, it’s being loose as a goose — apadin making you feel happier and younger.

But, can you have that kind of play without a small child or loving pet? Absolutely! To get started, go back in time. Be silly, move in an outlandish way, dance with passion (forgetting what you look like), sing with gusto, remember a sidesplitting joke, skip along the beach, hang around funny friends and above all, quit judging yourself !

Young kids are experts at playing, having fun, and letting themselves be.

It’s quite an ancient saying, yet a true and honest thought - that when you become an adult by young children you’ll be taught!

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Herald ScHoolS Harbor Elementary School gets new field An old baseball diamond at Seaford Harbor Elementary School has come back to life.

The field, on the south side of the school, is new again and students cheered enthusiastically during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 3.

The refurbishment of the field, which can be used for baseball, softball and kickball, was a partnership between the Seaford School District, Nassau County government, the Seaford Little League, the PTA and The LandTek Group. A grant from Nassau County Legislator Steve Rhoads got the ball rolling. Rhoads is also a candidate for the New York State Senate’s fifth district.

Principal Tom Burke, speaking to the entire student body that came out to see their new play area, spoke about the work that took place to make this happen. He said that the field could be used by students during their physical education classes and recess, and as participants on local youth sports teams.

After a team of administrators, local representatives and community members cut the ribbon, Deputy Superintendent John Striffolino threw out the first pitch to physical education teacher Suzanne Mooney.

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A couple of hometown heroes in the thoroughbred horseracing industry celebrated a memorable victory last Saturday after favored Mo Donegal, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, drew away down the stretch to capture the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes before a crowd of 46,301.

The three-length triumph marked the fourth Belmont Stakes win for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher and first Triple Crown victory for Mike Repole, who coowns Mo Donegal with Donegal Racing and also co-owns runner-up filly Nest with Eclipse Thoroughbred.

Nest, also trained by Pletcher and ridden by Jose Ortiz, overcame a stumble out of the gate to finish a clear second outkicking pacesetters We the People (fourth) and Skippylongstocking (third.) Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike was never involved and finished sixth in the eighthorse field.

“First of all, it’s our family’s favorite race,” said Pletcher, who trained filly Rags to Riches [2007], Palace Malice [2013], and Tapwrit [2017] to Belmont victories. “Our kids grew up here and went to school here and we’ve always felt like it’s our hometown race. When we’re fortunate enough to win it, it adds some specialness to it. That hometown feel. That part of it is really cool.”

Repole is a Queens native and a lifelong racing fan who in 2007 started his own thoroughbred ownership business, Repole Stable. His most accomplished horse to date, Uncle Mo, is Mo Donegal’s sire.

“It’s a 40-year dream,” Repole said.

“Coming to this track [Belmont] and Aqueduct, being a kid from New York, this is New York’s race. In 2011, I came in second with Stay Thirsty and I watched the replay 150 times. I will no longer watch that replay.”

Mo Donegal was purchased in 2020 by Donegal Racing for $250,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Fifth in the Kentucky Derby in his previous start, he more than doubled his career earnings with Saturday’s victory to $1,511,800.

“I want to thank all the partners of Donegal Racing. They’ve believed and today they’ve been rewarded,” said Jerry Crawford, owner of Donegal Racing. “I think this victory today shows that the sport is more accessible than they may realize. I can’t say enough for Todd Pletcher and Irad Ortiz, Jr. for the great job they’ve done with this horse.”

We the People took command under Flavien Prat and led the field through splits of 23.99 seconds for the opening quarter-mile, 48.49 for the half, and 1:13.23 for six furlongs on the fast main track, with the Manny Franco-piloted longshot Skippylongstocking pressing from second position.

Nest, who stumbled at the start, advanced up the rail down the backstretch

Courtesy NYRA/Viola Jasko

FavOrITE MO DONEgaL, with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, won the 154th running of the Belmont Stakes last Saturday before a crowd of 46,301.

JOckEY IraD OrTIz Jr. and Mo Donegal co-owner Mike Repole, far left, shared a moment with the Belmont Stakes hardware.

Courtesy NYRA/Joe Labozzetta

to stalk from third position to the inside of Mo Donegal as Skippylongstocking continued to pressure the pacesetter. Ortiz, Jr. gave Mo Donegal his cue approaching the quarter-pole and he advanced with a powerful move, surging outside rivals at the top of the lane and got the jump on Nest, who then angled outside and followed her stablemate’s path to complete the exacta.

The winning time of the 1 ½ miles “Test of the Champion” was 2:28.28.

“Last time in the Derby, he didn’t have the best trip and he still got beat by [only] three lengths,” Ortiz, Jr. said. “I knew if I got a better trip, he could get there. When I asked him in the clear, he took off. He’s a nice horse.”

Much of the hype leading up to the race was about Rich Strike, the 80-1 historic upset winner of the Kentucky Derby who skipped the Preakness. Jockey Sonny Leon said Rich Strike didn’t seem comfortable on

the Belmont surface and never found another gear.

Said Rich Strike trainer Ed Reed: “We were hoping we could have been a little closer and our pace was slow. Our biggest change was deciding to stay a little off the rail and try to give him a good, open run where he could take off. The whole way, his head turned and he was trying to get to the inside. I guess we made a mistake not putting him on the fence.”

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Attending the Jones Beach walk was

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Q. We’re buying a house with multiple issues,

A. If you define “big deal” as having things to do, then, yes, there are things to do, and expenses to go along with each item. It will take months and several thousand dollars to rectify the permit and final inspections leading to certifications.

The people advising you each have a different intent than you do.

Consider that the outside onte eeper items each have issues that range from zoning to construction correctness in order to pass for permits and for final certifications. For example, the municipality has regulations on the size of a shed, the area of the lot that all sheds and decks can cover and how close the pool, shed or deck can be to a property line. In each municipality there are several zones designated for different kinds of uses and sizes of properties.

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A zoning variance request, which is a request to “vary” from ordinances if the deck or shed is not compliant, adds considerably to the time it takes to get a permit, possibly several months. Building permits aren’t instantaneous, and can take one to two months in smaller villages and three to four months in larger towns — if the volume of applications coming into the building department is lower.

In a bustling economy, it can take much longer, and the time in a building department should be added to the zoning variance time.

Many people make the mistake of lumping the two time frames together in the hope of convincing themselves that this is no big deal. The deck, pool shed and garage conversion to living space all have very specific requirements under state building code. The general public assumes that codes for construction are local ordinances, but they aren’t.

Construction regulations are based on the International Building Code, used by the majority of states.

To get more specific, when I’m asked to look at conditions that may arise before a sale is complete, I see that about 90 percent of just the decks I look at do not comply with proper foundations or connectors from each wood part to the next, and beam spans are undersized for the allowable-size lumber, based on structural capability, even if they seem fine. I hope this helps with making things less of a big deal. Good luck!

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Getting to and from work, taking care of family needs and trying to have a little joy is much more important. Most people don’t think of politicians as people, and the daily machinations of the political world often go unnoticed. But elected officials are human beings, and the system in which they live can be a very cruel one.

The State Legislature recently approved new district maps that JERRY will play a decisive role in deterKREMER mining which candidate will represent you in Albany and Washington. For some of the incumbents, the new lines were pretty much the same as the districts they have represented. For a few others, however, the proposed maps are either the end of their political careers or the beginning of a life-or-death campaign for survival.

On Long Island, there were two notable changes, both affecting Democratic incumbents. State Sen. John Brooks saw most of his current mid-Island 8th Dis-

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trict disappear, and had to decide whether to run for re-election in the newly drawn 5th District. At first he chose not to run, but then he did an about-face, and will run for the seat in the new district after all. Brooks is a dedicated official, and he fought successfully this year to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to give Long Island a massive increase in school aid — but the mapmakers don’t reward devoted public service.

State Sen. Jim Gaughran currently represents the 5th District, which for now stretches from Glen Cove, in Nassau County, to Commack, in Suffolk County.

Gaughran has been a Huntington Town Board member, a Suffolk County legislator, chairman of the Suffolk County Water Authority and a strong environmental advocate in the State Senate. He is respected by both parties. But the mapmakers eliminated most of his 5th District, and facing an impossible uphill battle, Gaughran decided to leave the political arena.

The most notable change in the electoral map is taking place in Manhattan, where two long-serving members of Congress will now face each other in a primary contest. Under the old district

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lines, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney represented most of the Upper East Side, and Rep. Gerald Nadler represented the West Side, both for more than 25 years. When the maps were redrawn, Maloney and Nadler were thrown into the same district. Nadler suggested that Maloney run in an adjoining district, but since most of the new district is in her old territory, she declined to run elsewhere.

This battle of two senior members, who have been good friends and hold major committee chairmanships, made me recall my own history on the subject of legislative reapportionment. Back in the 1970s, when new State Assembly district lines were drawn, my South Shore district was combined with that of the late Assemblyman Eli Wager, a friend and fellow Long Island Democrat. Wager and I attempted to resolve our dicey situation by proposing that one of us run for the State Senate. That compromise ended quickly when attorney Karen Burstein announced that she was running for the Senate.

Imagine what it’s like when two elected officials who sat together in the same office, and have close family ties, are forced into a public battle for survival.

hen friends run against each other, there is rarely a happy ending.

There could be only one winner, and for 60-plus days we battled each other with every ounce of energy. On primary night, I was declared the winner by a margin of 1,800 votes, but the bitterness lingered for a number of years.

When colleagues are pitted against one another, there is rarely a happy ending. Luckily, months later, I got a call from then Gov. Hugh Carey, asking whether it was OK with me if he appointed Wager to the State Supreme Court. I encouraged Carey to make that move, and two elections later, Wager won a 14-year term on that court, where he served with distinction.

No one can predict who will win the battle between Representatives Maloney and Nadler, but when it’s over the public will have lost one great public servant.

The redrawing of district lines is required by law every 10 years. It primarily involves a juggling of constituent numbers, and is a heartless process.

Sadly, there are few happy endings when the final vote count is announced, which is what makes this process so cruel.

Jerry Kremer was a state assemblyman for 23 years, and chaired the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee for 12 years.

He now heads Empire Government Strategies, a business development and legislative strategy firm. Comments about this column? JKremer@liherald.com.

Is our democracy becoming a royal pain?

s it too late to bring back King George III? We had all the right intentions in 1776, and a terrific starting lineup, but we seem to be making a mess of this experiment called democracy.

Lately I’ve been thinking that everything British is better. Well, not everything (Boris Johnson) but many things.

Maybe not the food.

Still, God Save the Queen. You have to love a woman who embraces stoicism as her reason for being. Her Majesty does everything the old-fashioned RAnDi way, and with such KREiss grace. She even wears a tiara with aplomb.

She is heroic in her steadfast devotion to duty. No matter how the world turns, no matter the dalliances of her children or her in-law kids, she embraces tradition with dignity and, I imagine, personal sacrifice. Democracy is so messy and divisive, but there is real comfort in the elaborate ritual of royal pomp. As evolved as I am as a woman in the 21st century, I would still enjoy a spin in a Cinderella carriage. With footmen, of course.

How sweet it would be here and now in America to have a royal figure to maintain some decorum as so many elected officials run off the rails. I’m telling you, we just didn’t think the whole 1776 thing all the way through.

Part of my escape over the Pond includes immersion in World War II novels and nonfiction. Literature featuring British history has all the elements of reallife thrillers. This month I listened to “In the Garden of the Beasts” and “The Splendid and the Vile,” both

by Erik Larson, and “Munich,” by Robert Harris, all superb nonfiction accounts of the days and months leading up to and into World War II. The Brits had an uphill fight to beat back the Nazis. They were blessed with a brave and self-sacrificing queen and a once-in-a-lifetime prime minister in Winston Churchill, who inspired his people with soaring rhetoric and unflappable courage.

I keep thinking about the Londoners during the blitz, not knowing how it would end but getting up every morning to drag bodies out of the rubble and then go to work. The high-mindedness of it all

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contrasts painfully with the skeevy machinations of today’s American politics.

Half the people running for office can’t compose or articulate a proper English sentence.

When I turn on the telly, it is to mysteries and thrillers on BritBox or Acorn TV. The stories presume some intelligence on the part of the viewer. No one shoots anyone in British police procedurals. They chase one another up and down buildings and across the countryside, but you rarely see a weapon other than a bloody knife. The writing is nuanced, which means every other word isn’t a four-letter one. Characters sometimes quote Shakespeare.

British TV actors look like real people.

That’s key. They have wrinkles and messy hair, lumpy bodies in shabby clothes. You see very few scantily clad women; when you do, they usually have a compelling story, something beyond their cascading curls and rising flesh. The character actors are especially talented, commanding their scenes without affecting cheap technique or $200 hairstyles. They look like regular people, which is the idea of acting, isn’t it?

ow sweet it would be here to have a royal figure to maintain some decorum.

One of my favorite series is “Midsomer Murders,” which has been on the air so long that the actor playing the main character, the village detective, retired from the role and passed it to his younger onscreen “brother.” Every episode features a ghastly murder in a village of 150 people. They just don’t run out of bodies.

And it isn’t so much a whodunit as a walking tour of the village eccentrics, all of whom are played by marvelous actors.

In my escape to the United Kingdom, I include Irish novels, many of which are gems, little-known literary sleepers like “The All of It” and “Northern Spy.” For some reason, books about the Troubles and the lives of the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland just pull me in and pull me out of my worries.

In general, the Queen and her subjects elevate the conversation, any conversation, unlike here in the States, where incivility and aggressive ignorance are increasingly common.

In one of the big production numbers in the show “Hamilton,” King George sings a solo to the American rebels.

“You’ll be back,” he warns, “soon, you’ll see. You’ll remember you belong to me…”

It has taken 246 years to come to this point, but maybe he was right.

Copyright 2022 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.

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here is seemingly no place safer than home, but schools are supposed to be the next best thing. A place to learn about the world, to learn about one another. To grow. To mature. Really, a place to blossom.

Not too long ago, parents sent their children to schools without a second thought — worried only about grades and the occasional bully. Now it’s lockdown drills.

Secured classroom doors. Constant vigilance by those who we have otherwise tasked to teach.

And these words won’t make any of that better. Because if there is anything we have learned from Uvalde, from Parkland, from Sandy Hook, it’s that we can never do enough to protect our most precious resource: our children.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t try. And it’s time for a much broader approach — the kind only the Nassau-Suffolk School Boards Association can lead.

It’s so sad that we, as a country, can even say this, but there is a lot of experiential data available on how vulnerable our schools are to those intending to inflict harm. Yet we can’t dwell on why

that information exists. We must use it to prevent those tragic stories we read about and watch from elsewhere from ever landing at our front door.

The school boards association doesn’t have the authority to demand, of course.

But it can certainly advocate — something it’s been doing since 1959 for more than 100 school districts across Long Island.

Sure, most of that has been on the financial end — schools are always starving for money, thus making funding at all government levels a priority. But that doesn’t mean the organization can’t pursue school safety as well.

And it’s not that our local school districts aren’t trying — they are. The knowledge and skills to effectively fortify a school from a shooter are not something that can be piecemealed, however. It requires centralized planning — not as big as New York, but at least as big as Long Island.

The school boards association has the infrastructure to help lead that planning, and even effect real change.

The group can start by pushing for an audit of every single building, every sin-

gle door, every single window in Long Island schools. How are campuses accessed? How are visitors controlled?

How can those campuses keep weapons off their grounds, without making them feel like prisons?

Some ideas that have been promoted elsewhere include video cameras outside every exterior door with direct feeds to a security officer. Classroom door locks that can be activated by a teacher. Even bulletproof glass.

Sure, these measures are designed to prevent the symptoms of this overall issue, not the issue itself. But they are measures that will help keep our children safe today, and buy time for more expansive measures like gun control, assault weapon bans, and addressing the emotional needs of a school — and a community — right down to identifying signs that lead to a potential tragedy, and stopping it before a shooter’s plans are realized.

We can’t just talk and do nothing. We need to take action, and we need to speak with a unified voice. If we don’t, that next tragedy we read about could very well be our own.

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letters Abortion is more than just personal To the Editor: In his letter “Abortion is personal — a pandemic is not,” last week, Eugene Artemyeff precisely states the universal error of those who, in defense of abortion, claim that a woman has the right to do as she pleases with her own body.

He concludes that “abortion is a personal experience that physically affects that person and no one else,” that the physical aspects of that decision start and stop with only the woman involved.

I cannot understand how the rights of the developing fetus, the unborn, can be so overlooked and disregarded. The unborn is not part of the mother, but, genetically, a new and unique individual, and abortion ends its existence. Killing another person cannot but equate with murder or manslaughter. Of course there will never be agreement as to when abortion is justified, but if the life of the mother-to-be is threatened by the pregnancy, it would be. Less objectively, perhaps, abortion would be a legitimate recourse in cases of rape or incest, although by the end of the second trimester, that option should have been decided on one way or the other.

Thus, it is a question of when, in the course of a pregnancy, abortion might

be justified. It is not a yes-or-no issue, regardless of how the extreme position holders would portray it. But for a fetus, particularly a viable fetus, to have its life ended is inconsistent with our belief in life as a society.

I am always amazed at how often the right to life of the unborn is never even raised in the abortion debate.

That the pandemic presents a challenge that

requires members of society to act in a mutually respectful and considerate way makes sense. But even if a “society” involves just two people, mother and unborn, respect and consideration should be just as warranted and forthcoming, particularly when one holds the life of the other in her womb.

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ur country mourned the tragic events of a school massacre — again. But the day after the shooting at Uvalde, school life here at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck went on as usual. From Monday through Friday, my routine remained unchanged: I woke up, ate my breakfast, grabbed my backpack and kissed my parents goodbye before I hopped on the bus to head to school, my home away from home.

My school friends and I don’t have to make a conscious effort to Ilana walk in the shoes your average GREEnBERG of American student.

It’s not hard for us to understand and sympathize with the victims of the horrific tragedy in Texas and feel their grief.

What we can’t wrap our heads around is why it is so hard for our country to actually do something — anything — to stop this horror from happening again and

again and again, I am not fooled by my seemingly sheltered Long Island upbringing in Nassau County, the safest community in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. The unfortunate reality is that the shooting in Uvalde could have happened anywhere.

The statistics are staggering. More innocent children die from irresponsible and unregulated guns than from car accidents, according to Sandyhookpromise.org. Sixty-eight percent of school shooters used guns that were accessible in their homes. At any time, one or more of the 4.6 million American kids who live in a home with a loaded gun can bring it to school and use it to end lives.

School-aged children like me have enough to worry about. We’re exposed to harmful vape smoke and all types of drugs. We’re warned against the dangers of drinking and texting while driving. We battle bullying, and mental health problems, and Covid. And yet, gun violence has become the leading cause of death

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was taking a chemistry test, and started thinking about someone firing a gun.

lEttERs The Supreme Court was political long before the leak To the Editor: Re attorney Ronald Rosenberg’s op-ed piece “A leaking Supreme Court puts us at risk (May 26-June 1): I respectfully disagree. I think it is the Supreme Court itself that puts our democracy at risk.

Mr. Rosenberg writes that the leak of a draft decision on Roe v.

Wade “sought to politicize part of our democracy that was deliberately set above and beyond politics by our founders.” The Supreme Court is above and beyond politics? That’s news to me. In fact, today’s court may be the most politically partisan branch of our government.

When then candidate Donald Trump promised to appoint only judges that would outlaw a woman’s right to choose, that wasn’t political? Of course it was. And look what it got us: Neil Gorsuch, who was opposed by just about every civil and human rights organization in the U.S.; Brett Kavanaugh, whose “I liked beer” whine at his confirmation hearing is now a YouTube favorite, and Amy Coney Barrett, who served as a handmaid in an extreme religious organization.

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among young people.

News outlets covered the heartwrenching days that followed the shooting in Uvalde, but I fear the world has already become desensitized and diverted its short attention span to newer headlines. But for me, I suspect that no matter how long ago or comparatively distant the shooting took place, there will always be this constant, gnawing anxiety clawing through the depths of my subconscious, that something like this could happen to anyone — to my young brothers, to my friends and teachers, to me. I have an enduring fear, knowing that no school building is completely impervious to a safety breach.

Recently I was taking a chemistry test when my mind drifted, and a thought suddenly came to mind: If a student next to me were to start firing a gun, how would the security guard all the way at the front of the building stop him?

My peers and I have been trained in the event of a shooting to scan a class-

room and think, where would be a good place to hide?

Our doors have automatic locking mechanisms, so when a student returning from the bathroom innocently knocks at my classroom door, I have to look to my teacher for reassurance that our lives aren’t in danger and that the person that we’re about to let into the room doesn’t want to kill us.

When I ask my 7-year-old brother what he learned in school, he brings up safety drills, in which the phrase, “Stop, drop and roll” has been replaced by the instructions to “Hide, don’t make noise, and don’t open the door to anybody, not even the principal, who might have a gun to his head.”

When the world encountered a global pandemic, we came together to tackle the problem as best we could. Schoolchildren are now living through their own national crisis, but as our cries echo in the classrooms, the rest of the country stays silent.

When will we wake up from this living nightmare?

Ilana Greenberg is a freshman at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck.

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nell, denying even a hearing for Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. That wasn’t political? McConnell said that a new appointment to the court shouldn’t be made only eight months before the next election. Later he allowed Coney Barrett, a diehard Republican who had never tried a case to or argued an appeal, to be confirmed in a Republican senatorsonly vote just a week before Election Day 2020. No politics there, right?

The truth is that we have ended up with a Supreme Court that is an arm of the Republican Party. Its decisions have consistently espoused the GOP’s political principles — or, rather, the lack of them.

These rulings were made by unelected judges with lifetime jobs, and they include decimating voting rights, gutting the Clean Water Act, permitting the proliferation of handguns and assault rifles and diminishing a woman’s right to choose.

I do not argue with Mr. Rosenberg’s contention that the founders were well intentioned when they tried to create a Supreme Court that would be above and beyond politics. But it seems today’s court verifies the aphorism “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

JOHN TURCHIANO Long Beach

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