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Another death at Life Academy - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

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Another death at Life Academy

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 10:33 pm in

photo by Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group
Yesterday in the school auditorium at Life Academy, school employees and grief counselors stood in a circle and quietly discussed their plan for the memorial assembly in 18-year-old Alejandro Aguilera‘s honor. Some of them had puffy eyes. Most looked exhausted.
Apart from the sorrow and the heaviness in the room that day, something else hit me:  Everyone seemed to