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Collected Item: “School Apologizes After Viral Photo Of Teacher Taping Mask To Student's Face Outrages Parents”

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School Apologizes After Viral Photo Of Teacher Taping Mask To Student's Face Outrages Parents

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Text story

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This is a news story from Your Tango by Nia Tipton. This is about a middle school in Pennsylvania, where a video of a teacher taping a mask to a student caused outrage. The photo was taken at Pennfield Middle School in Hatfield. The photo went viral and appeared on Sean Hannity's website. The middle school announced that they are going to conduct an investigation over this scandal. Parents also expressed their anger at school board meetings over this. The mother of the student getting his mask taped to his face says that she never intended for the story to go viral. She used the photo to gain support from a Facebook group prior to a school board meeting. She says that other individuals in the group took it upon themselves to spread this story further.

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school, children, mask, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Twitter, Facebook, social media, school board, middle school, Hatfield, Pennsylvania, HST580, ASU, conflict

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https://www.yourtango.com/news/viral-photo-teacher-taping-mask-students-face-outrages-parents

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Nia Tipton

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2022-01-21
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