🌱 Patch AM: Why Smithfield’s superintendent resigned after the football hazing investigation

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• Why Smithfield’s superintendent resigned after the football hazing investigation

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📰 News we're reading

• Smithfield School Committee says alleged hazing incident was ‘mishandled' (wpri.com) — Smithfield’s School Committee says the superintendent mishandled discipline and communication after an alleged hazing incident involving high school football players, and has accepted her immediate resignation. Interim leadership and the committee’s attorney are now reviewing student and staff policies, while a separate investigation by the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office continues into what happened in the locker room.
   

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Tuesday December 16

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don’t know. I can never finish drinking the hot bath!
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