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Hopatcong High Students Walk Out of School to Protest Principal's Dismissal

About 200 students carried signs and chanted Noreen Lazariuk's name for about an hour Thursday morning.

About 200 Hopatcong High students walked out of school Thursday morning to protest the district's decision not to bring back Principal Noreen Lazariuk after this year.

The students carried signs and chanted Lazariuk's name during the hour-long protest that started at about 8 a.m., according to the New Jersey Herald.

Superintendent Cynthia Randina addressed the entire student body following the protest in the auditorium about Lazariuk's future with the school, the report said.

A large group of students and parents protested the district's decision to not renew the contract for Lazariuk, a non-tenured employee, at a Board of Education meeting last month. 


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