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Amityville school turns staff day into Sandy outreach effort
At the start of the school year, Edmund W. Miles Middle School Principal Michele Darby shared with her faculty a story that became their mantra.
It was centered on an African village, where the people walked around greeting each other not with ‘hellos’ and ‘how are yous?’ but by asking, “How are the children?”
“And they answered, ‘The children are well,’” she said. “And that was the...
