The Farmington Board of Education unanimously voted Monday to remove two Jewish holidays from its 2023-2024 calendar and rejected calls from town’s the South Asian population to provide a day off for the festival of Diwali a discussion that signals the ever-changing cultural makeup of the community.
Farmington High School math teacher Patrick Skerker was placed on leave during a review of a “personnel matter as required by law,” according to a school official.
More than a dozen members of the Farmington High School Gender Sexuality Alliance Club walked out of school Monday morning in protest of having their requests denied to raise a Pride flag on the flagpole in the school courtyard.
Police on Monday charged a 14-year-old student with possessing a gun at Farmington High School, but said said the arrest wasn’t connected to an alleged shooting threat that touched off widespread anxiety last week.