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Parkland High School Quiet on Anniversary of Mass Shooting

Esha Sarai

   PARKLAND, FLORIDA - The week of Valentine's Day2020 at Marjory Stoneman
   Douglas High School has been strangely quiet.

   "I like to get out of town this time of year," Felicia Burgin, an
   English teacher at the Parkland, Florida, school said.

   On Friday, students and teachers there will be offered their choice of
   service activities, ranging from meeting with first responders and
   working in a local garden to practicing yoga on the beach and other
   activities.

   But many of the students will just stay home.

   "We'll never have school on that day," Burgin said.

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