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do not reply to this email, contact </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Principal Pasarow,
<a href="mailto:sampasarow@berkeley.net" target="_blank">sampasarow@berkeley.net</a></span><span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Today was an intense day at Berkeley High School and I am so proud of our students and teachers. Students protested peacefully today and student leadership was palpable. Students balanced impassioned advocacy with expressions of caring for one another. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">After an extensive investigation conducted by site administrators and technology staff, and with additional resources from the school district and Berkeley Police Department, we were able to identify the student responsible for writing the hateful threats on a library computer. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">While we acknowledge that there is a desire for additional details, we are bound by student privacy rights that we must respect. Therefore, all I can share is that we are considering all available consequences for the individual in response to the widespread hurt that these actions caused. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">We will continue to make student safety our number-one priority. In addition to students’ physical safety, we will work to ensure our school culture is positive and inclusive as well as socially/emotionally safe. We realize that unless kids feel safe on many levels (physical, social, emotional, cognitive), the likelihood that they will achieve their intellectual and creative potential is compromised. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Teachers and students, in conjunction with administration, will determine what our next steps are related to healing the harm that has occurred in our community. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">This has been a very difficult day-and-a-half at BHS, particularly for African American students, and I want to close by saying I am deeply proud of and moved by our students’ advocacy and commitment to social justice. My sense is that today’s demonstrations brought our school community closer together and I will work with our students and staff to make sure today’s positive momentum moves forward. </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">In Solidarity, </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Sam Pasarow</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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