After a teenage girl died Friday in what appeared to be a Metro train surfing incident in Silver Spring, the parents of a different teen, Jay Thirunarayanapuram, from Silver Spring who died in June 2023 in a similar incident are advocating for cameras on top of train cars.
“We need to be proactive, and Metro is a member of this community. It needs to step up and it needs to make sure that no train leaves the platform with somebody riding outside a train,” the teen’s mom said. “It’s horrible to live with pain like this and to know what our child went through in those last moments.” [NBC 4]
Kennedy High School alum Thea LaFond wins gold for Dominica at world competition
Thea LaFond, a MCPS paraeducator and former University of Maryland track and field athlete, won the gold medal for the triple jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland this past weekend. LaFond represents her birth country, Dominica, a small island in the Caribbean.
LaFond jumped passed the 15-meter mark, at 15.01 meters, setting her personal best score and securing her spot as Dominica’s first female athlete to win a global medal. [Montgomery Community Media]
MCPS ranks No. 220 out of 250 in survey of most sought-after school districts
A new survey by Test Prep Insight, a test prep company, surveyed 3,000 parents across the United States to find out which school districts they would want their children to attend. Montgomery County was one of 250 schools included in the survey and ranked No. 220.
Other school districts in Maryland ranked higher, with Anne Arundel County Public School at No. 40, Frederick County Public Schools at No. 170, Howard County Public School System at No. 171, and Carroll County Public Schools at No. 194. Ranked No. 1 is Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia. [Fox 5 D.C.]
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