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Massapequa Wins School of Distinction Award for Fourth Consecutive Year

Massapequa High School wins award for the best student-athletes.

Area student athletes have once again been honored for their academic acheivements.

 has received the “School of Distinction” Award for the fourth year in a row, superintendent Charles Sulc announced at Thursday's school board meeting.

The prestigious award, issued by the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA), is given to a school that certifies 100 percent of its varsity athletic teams have received the Scholar-Athlete Team Award from the NYSPHSAA. To qualify, the composite grade-point average of varsity team members be 90 percent or above during the athletic season.

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“Basically what [this award] means is that every varsity
team that we have is a scholar-athlete team,”  Superintendent Sulc explained. “The average of those kids has to be 90 or above. That is a wonderful tribute to not only our coaches and their ability to motivate on the athletic field, but what they also tell the students about the importance of their classroom work.”

Currently, there are twelve student-athletes who signed Letters
of Intent to play athletics at major colleges and universities across the
nation.

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Sulc also provided the BOE with an update on the issue which has forced over 80 previously eligible families without bus service to find other transportation to school.

In many cases, children are forced to cross Sunrise Highway in order to get to school.

After several failed attempts to make a busy section of Sunrise Highway a part of that zone, Senator R-Merrick was given a video of the traffic pattern in effort to demonstrate the danger this poses for students.  

Fuschillo forwarded the video to the New York State Department of Transportation which resulted in the organization saying the Child Safety Zone struck a balance between traffic patterns and safety and
did not need to change it in order to include the section of Sunrise Highway as a Child Safety Zone.

“I thanked the Senator for his efforts… and he said he was
still pursuing the matter with the education department,” Sulc said.

The Board also heard presentations from teachers who are in
charge of the Science Research Program, to give an interim update on the
progress of this elite science program.

“The expectations and efforts of our students in this
program have increased tremendously,” said Dr. Thomas J. Fasano, assistant to the superintendent. “So we look forward to tremendous things to come out of this program and we thank the teachers for their efforts.”

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