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Principal Who Covered Up Assaults Removed

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 9/11/20

The Principal of Marie Curie Middle School, which early this year came under scrutiny due to safety concerns after video of a vicious beating by one teenage girl of another in the school cafeteria went viral, has been removed, according to the Department of Education.

Henry Schandel served as M.S. 158’s Principal for four years. In January, the Bayside school’s safety came into question grew after a video filmed in the cafeteria showed a 14-year-old female student jumping from a table onto a 13-year-old girl, kicking and punching her while other students cheered wildly. Katty Sterling, the mother of the girl who was beaten, said that her daughter’s attacker was arrested but never suspended.

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