PROVIDENCE Glenn Zienowicz doesn’t just teach middle schoolers how to perform. He teaches them how to fly.
In play after play, Zienowicz, known as Mr. Zin, has inspired students at Nathan Bishop Middle School to reach deep into their adolescent souls and produce college-level performances. Everything he touches the costumes, the sets, the lighting turns to magic, parents and students say.
But this fall, Zienowicz will be gone, his drama class, an elective, replaced by computer science, which the district says is in higher demand. The after-school drama club will continue, but parents and students say theater won’t be the same without him.
Providence school leader arrested for alleged unwanted foot massage
The network superintendent of secondary schools was charged with simple assault and is currently on paid leave
Updated May 12, 2021, 3:41 p.m.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. â A Providence school administrator was arrested Monday and placed on paid leave after allegedly giving an unwanted foot massage to someone at a gym in another town.
Olayinka Alege, 40, is the network superintendent of secondary schools in Providence and oversees the cityâs middle and high schools. He was arrested and charged with simple assault for allegedly massaging someone s foot without their consent at a gym in Warwick, WJAR reported.
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ICYMI: Rhode Island was up to 130,120 confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday, after adding 429 new cases. The most-recent overall daily test-positive rate was 1.8 percent, and the first-time positive rate was 19 percent. The state announced four more deaths, bringing the total to 2,563. There were 141 people in the hospital, and 100,610 residents were fully vaccinated.