Hoboken Train Crash kills 1 and injures 114
By Lucas, Ella & Romy
At 8:45am on September 28th a New Jersey train overran its stopping point, hit the bumper block, went airborne and hurtled through a passenger concourse. The woman killed was standing on the platform and was struck by flying debris. Bhagyesh Shan was riding in the back of the front car and witnessed the crash; he said that the train didn’t slow down or even stop when it came into the station. Suddenly, he was on the floor with parts of the roof and debris beside him. The crash occurred five years after a similar crash in the same station. The train also did not stop and hit the bumper block as well. Thirty people were injured in that crash and police are now investigating if the two have anything in common. A few days later, they recovered a potentially key piece of evidence, an event recorder. The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) team in New Jersey says that they will never find a conclusion about what caused the crash. “The NTSB
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more rules or have somebody looking to make sure nothing is dangerous. Then some kids complained that if they put rules on what you could and could not do on the bars, that it wasn’t fun anymore. So we cannot satisfy anyone which is why this problem is out of control. Even though it may be unsafe, taking the bars away is not the answer. It will only make things worse. One of the students pointed out that some of the kids wanted to do gymnastics and did not have time to take lessons for the moment, so at school was the only time they could. So destroying the bars could affect a lot in their future. The student who went to the hospital quoted : “I love gymnastics, and when I got hurt I was a little scared to restart gymnastics, but in the end I faced my fear and started again. If I hadn’t done it, I would have regretted it. And I would have never reached the level that I am atnnow.”
Anonymous comments on the school by the 7th grade
by Chloe & Emma
What is your opinion about removing the bars? Did you ever actually play on them?
I did and I think that if they’re taking off the bars they are going to have to take off the wood-chips and I have found them very useful for doing things like back-flips.
The Kurds, inspired by the rebels, decided to take up arms against Assad.
Iran, one of Assad’s allies, started to send money and troops to support him. In response to this act, the Gulf States funded rebels through Turkey.
The situation began to escalate and Hezbollah, a Lebanese powerful political and military organization, took Assad’s side. At this point in the war, it was basically a fight between the Sunni (rebels and their allies), and the Shia (Assad and his allies) branches of Islam.
In 2013, Assad used one of his chemical bombs on the rebel city of Ghouta. Around 1,700 people were killed, including 280 French and around 350 British, according to intelligence agents.
To help the rebels protect and defend themselves, the CIA started training them.
Due to internal discord and to prevent bloodshed a leader of Al-Qaeda broke away from the group with a small number of militants and created ISIS.
The new ISIS group decided to declare war on the Kurds who had been resisting the Al-Qaeda group in the past.
The situation in Syria became disastrous and the Russians joined in, claiming that they would bomb ISIS. Then, not sticking to their word, they bombed the rebels instead. The Russian army decided to bomb a
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-turer in Kentucky for downloading,” said the NTSB Vice Chairman. They also interviewed the engineer at the controls of the train, Thomas Gallagher, who says that he has absolutely no memory of the crash. Thomas told federal investigators that he came into the station at a reasonable 10 mph.
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Opinion: School Playground may be unfairly demolished
By Ava, Lucie, Alice, Marie & Louann
At the Lycee Francais de San Francisco, there is a possibility that the school playground is to be destroyed. The decision will be based on the need for space for other things. The area is composed of gymnastics bars, a climbing net, monkey bars, parallel bars, a metal round beam and “copeaux” (wooden chips). Everything may be taken away. The school board might
Do you think this year has started out more like a revision or learning new things and why?
I think that last year was a revision of 5th grade and elementary. This year is when we actually started to learn new things. I think that the first one or two months, we will be
revising.
Do you usually try to help the 6th graders since they are new here now?
Yes but sometimes some can be very frustrating and I’m just going to avoid them.
How does it feel like to not be the youngest in the school now? Do you think you know this school better now that you’ve been learning in it for a year?
Yes, I think it’s easier to get around the school now, and I know more of the stuff. But since most of the teachers from last year left, it’s slightly irritating. Although the work hasn’t been much harder but there is definitely more work to
do.
city in the North-West of Syria: Aleppo.
Aleppo is a hospital city which means there are a lot of sick and wounded people already. At least 16 people were killed at a wake during the most recent bombing and 525 people between April and July of 2016.
Aleppo is an ancient city that is thousands of years old. The population in 2004 was over 2 million people and is one of Syria’s largest cities. Much of the city has been destroyed through the Syrian Civil War. The population is suffering from lack of fresh food, water and safe homes.
Donald Trump elected President of the United States of America
On the 8th of November 2016, Donald Trump unexpectedly won the presidency. The electoral polls had expected Hillary Clinton to
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soon decide to turn the space into a lounge for eating. This affects many children who spend all their free time at school, on the bars. What will they do instead? That, nobody knows. Since they spend all their time playing on the bars, they will probably just stay inside and do indoor activities. They would probably not do anything outside because most of those kids are not big fans of basketball and there is no place else to do gymnastics or play on structures. It will impact their behavior a lot since they will probably be mad and sad at this situation. They might want to know why it all happened. One reason behind that is that a kid was playing on the monkey bars and she fell and banged her head against the metal bars. She was then taken to the hospital, and she suffered a concussion with loss of memory and blackout, and broke her nose.
It is very concerning, but instead of taking away the playground just for one accident, they should make
What is the difference in between last year and this year for you?
I think this year there has been a lot more work and homework.
Aleppo and the Syrian Conflict
By Ian, Mateo, Arthur, Nicolas & Vincent
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The Syrian conflict started becoming violent after the day Assad’s army opened fire on protesters. A portion of his army, who supported the rebels, broke away and joined the rebels. They call themselves the Free Syrian Army.
To avoid further losses and conflict, the rebels and the Free Syrian Army moved towards Jordan. To make it more difficult for foreign forces to help and supply the rebels, Assad released a big portion of his jihadist prisoners for them to form a new terrorist group in Syria, North of the rebels. The jihadists then formed their new Al-Qaeda group in Syria.
win and she did get the popular vote. President-elect Trump won more individual states and the greatest number of electoral votes. Secretary Clinton won the greatest number of votes throughout the United States. Many people are calling for reforms of the voting process.
President elect Trump won the majority of the electoral votes. There will be a transition period whereby outgoing President Obama will share knowledge and advice.
There have been protest marches in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Oakland. The protesters are concerned about some of the policies that President Trump has suggested regarding health care, immigration, guns, a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, NATO, nuclear weapons, taxes and nominations to the Supreme Court.
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