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Alyssa Czaban argues on behalf of the United States while her “co-counsel” Domenic Aulisi, left, and her opponents Kareem Al-Attar, middle, and Patrick Halm, right, listen during the Langley High School Case Day on Monday, March 27.

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Kareem Al-Attar argues on behalf of the petitioner during the mock oral arguments.

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“Supreme Court Justice” Jack Simmons asks a question of the “counselors” during the oral arguments as “Justice” Sanjay Beri, an attorney with DLA Piper, glances over.

Langley High Seniors Argue Before the ‘Supreme Court’ “Case Day” has been held at the school for the past 25 years. By Fallon Forbush Photo courtesy of Nik Popli

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he library at Langley High School was unusually busy at 8 o’clock in the morning. This was because Monday, March 27, was not an ordinary day. It was Case Day. The annual event has been held at the school for the past 25 years by seniors who conduct a mock oral argument of a real case that is before the Supreme Court of the United States. In this library that is transformed into a courtroom, students get to be the attorneys representing the petitioner and the respondent of the case as well as the judges deciding the case. The real case that was selected for this year’s event was Turner v. United States, a case that sought justice for the murder of Catherine Fuller in 1984 in Northeast Washington, D.C. This is because, years later, convicted defendants of the case appealed the trial court’s decision citing Brady v. Maryland, a case that set precedent for overturning convictions if evidence was withheld intentionally or inadvertently during a trial. The Supreme Court has nine Justices, but Langley’s court only had eight members to reflect the reality of the Court, which has not yet filled the seat that Justice Antonin Scalia left empty when he died. While the empty seat was accurate, it was also meant to honor Scalia, according to Allison Cohen, who teaches Advanced Placement U.S. Government at the school and oversees the students who put on the event. “Justice Antonin Scalia spoke to the students each year for 23 years,” Cohen said. “He took their questions and helped them to understand the Court and the role of oral arguments.”

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Langley High students and teachers pose with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday, March 29, the day the case’s oral arguments were made before the Court. From left: Lauren Malcolm, Assistant Principal Laura Moore, Simran Ahmed, AP U.S. Government Teachers Matt Kissling and Micah Herzig, Nik Popli, Shivani Iyer, Julia Tamantes, Julia Stucky, Mary Margaret Chalk, Jack Simmons, Lauren LaTeef, Domenic Aulisi, Maryam Madhi, Aamil Shah, Kendall Raymond, Gabby Sutton, Patrick Halm, Alyssa Czaban, Lindsey McKula, Zahra Hassan, Jacob Shapero, Marina Smith, Aria Zand, Elena Marcovici, Kaitlin Bonacci, Kareem Al-Attar, Olivia Augustini and AP U.S. Government Teacher Allison Cohen.

The yellow light indicates that Patrick Halm’s time arguing is almost up. While there are a limited number of spots for seniors to participate in the oral arguments, more students get to participate throughout the day through presentations and performances before the oral arguments begin.

“I’ve always loved the extent to which students take ownership of the planning of the day’s events,” Cohen said. “They decide which issues they want to talk about, who they want to bring in and plan the student presentations.”

THE SIX STUDENTS who participate in the main event had to try-out for their role by engaging in five-minute oral arguments. Of the top six, four are selected to serve as counselors and two as justices. “I think that everyone who comes to see Case Day would agree that they wouldn’t otherwise believe that these were high school students,” Cohen said. “The process of preparing for oral argument builds so many skills that will serve these students well, no matter what they end up doing.” While the majority opinion of the Langley Case Day Court decided to reverse the judgment and set aside the convictions of the petitioners, the real Supreme Court will make their decision later this year. In fact, the real Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case on Wednesday, March 29, just two days after Langley students conducted their mock arguments. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed to meet with the students at the court on that day. “It was an experience these students will not soon forget,” Cohen said.

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“A Space for All: A Conversation about Ending Prejudice in our Schools” forum held at the Temple Rodef Shalom. By Fallon Forbush The Connection

lassmates used the Nazi salute, exclaiming “Heil Hitler” to greet her. The next day, other classmates threw pennies at her, implying Jewish people like her are cheap and gestures reminiscent of the Holocaust are a joke. “If this is happening to me, it’s probably happening to other people,” Havi CarrilloKlein, a junior at McLean High School, said of her experience of anti-Semitism. The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington and the Temple Rodef Shalom of Falls Church hosted “A Space for All: A Conversation about Ending Prejudice in our Schools” forum with students to talk about their recent experiences of hate and bias in Arlington and Fairfax county public schools on Wednesday, May 10. Students from McLean and Langley high schools in McLean and J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church participated. “We’re all here because we know that this is a very urgent conversation,” Jeffrey Saxe, a rabbi with the temple, said during the event. “We know that over the last year, there are many students who have felt challenged, who have felt unwelcome or mistreated in some way around their school community.” Carrillo-Klein got help from her assistant principal. She also confronted her classmates to express how their anti-Semitic actions made her feel.

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RESOLUTIONS that right wrongdoing and put victims at ease are not always the ending for every instance of harassment. “I have to say that I am not shocked, but very saddened that perhaps the No. 1 issue that we have dealt with at the Jewish Community Relations Council in the last six months has been helping parents to deal and grapple with anti-Semitism and other expressions of bigotry and bullying in their children’s schools,” Guila Franklin Siegel, associate director of the JCRC of Great Washington, said during the event. Siegel told the crowd that she and her organization have not just been hearing increased complaints from parents about antiSemitic incidents, but also bullying and harassment of immigrants, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and other minority students. “Children cannot learn if they do not feel safe,” she said.

High school students sit in the front row of the Jewish temple and wait to talk to the forum about their experiences with bullying and harassment. From left are Langley High School student Jed Prickett, McLean High School student Jack Reed, J.E.B. Stuart High School students Sara Mohamed and Marafi Badr and McLean High School students Havi Carrillo-Klein and Carmen Beadie.

McLean High School student Havi Carrillo-Klein speaks out about her experience with anti-Semitic harassment from classmates.

Carmen Beadie, a gender-nonconforming junior at McLean High School, spoke out against hate endured in school regarding gender identity and expression, which is not protected under federal law.

Carmen Beadie, a gender-nonconforming junior at McLean High School, also spoke out against hate they endured in school. This prejudice was allegedly perpetrated by a health teacher. Beadie prefers to use gender neutral pronouns like they, them and their. Beadie has received push back on gender identity and self-expression. “I remember it very clearly,” Beadie told the audience about an incident which took place over a year ago. “It was in front of my whole class. He was talking to the whole class, but I remember he looked at me directly in the eyes and said, ‘No matter how you cut your hair or how you dress, you’ll always be a girl and nothing can change that,’” Beadie told the audience. The class just stared at Beadie, who didn’t know how to respond. “I just said, ‘Thanks for your input,’ and just stayed quiet for the rest of class,” Beadie said. Beadie told the crowd how tiring it is to defend yourself and that many previous complaints of inappropriate behavior by the teacher had gone without action from the high school’s administration. “I realized it was not really about me anymore,” Beadie said. “It was about other kids that could be affected. I didn’t have it that bad. I’m actually quite lucky for the support that I found at McLean.” Beadie eventually told the band director. Now the individual is barred from teaching health, according to Beadie. “I’m afraid,” Beadie said. “Honestly, preparing for today was a little bit scary because I don’t want it to get back to me. I don’t want to get in trouble for this because he’s a pretty intimidating guy.” Like Beadie and Carrillo-Klein, four other students stood before the audience and talk about their mistreatment, ranging from a coach preventing a student and her teammate from playing mid-season on the J.E.B.

disclosing specific information about other students to victims and their parents. “They sort of see the process unfold … and they are part of that process,” she said. The process has been extended to criminals. Police officers with the Fairfax County Police and Herndon Police Departments, including school resource officers, are now allowed to use the restorative justice process to resolve crimes when they are committed by students on and off school grounds, according to Panarelli. “Let’s say somebody stole a [smart]phone,” she said. “Well, that’s a felony because of the cost of the phone. So, a 13-year-old, they may not want to charge with a felony because they took someone’s phone. This is giving police officers a chance to refer crimes to restorative justice rather than making formal complaints with the courts.” However, student victims of harassment have rights under the law, which Gordon outlined for the audience. “Bullying is a significant issue in school and the federal government has done studies,” Gordon said. “Surveys indicate that nationwide, 22 percent of students grade six through 12 have experienced bullying.” Gordon explained to the audience the legal differences between harassment and bullying. Harassment under the law only pertains when people are being discriminated against for their race or color, national origin, sex and religion, according to Title 6 of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits this kind of discrimination in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. “Bullying that does not relate to a protected class is not harassment under the federal law, however, it is still wrong and it is still something that you can report to the school administrators and psychologists,” he said. This leaves Beadie without legal recourse

under federal law, as gender identity and sexual orientation are not federally-protected characteristics. Panarelli told the audience that when FCPS investigations do not rise to the definition of harassment under the law, “we would still go forward to ensure that a student who was the target has things in place to feel safe.” Actions that make students feel unsafe and harassed do not have to be physical attacks. “Harassment is unwelcome conduct based on a protected class that can include verbal abuse such as name-calling, epithets, slurs, graphic or written statements, threats, physical assaults and other conduct that may be physically threatening, harmful or humiliating,” he said. Gordon spoke about how the U.S. Department of Justice handles reports of harassment at schools. “What we care about is how is the school division responding to this conduct,” he said. He explained that once school divisions are notified of harassment — whether through complaints or through reasonable oversight and supervision where school officials should have known about the conduct — they are required to act. It is a potential violation of civil rights statutes if school divisions do not take appropriate steps, especially if attending school becomes a hostile environment for the victims, according to Gordon. According to Gordon, schools should communicate corrective actions to the victims and have an evaluation process in place that includes speaking to victims to determine whether the actions were successful. Gordon encouraged parents of children in Arlington and Fairfax county schools to contact him directly if they think harassment is occurring at their schools that is not being addressed correctly by school officials by emailing him directly at [email protected] or calling him at 703-299-3817.

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Stuart High School softball team because they were wearing hijabs to other stories of Islamophobia and anti-Semitic incidents that produced gasps from the crowd. Before the students shared their experiences, a panel talked about strategies for combating prejudice. THE PANEL was moderated by Michael Shochet, senior cantor with the Temple Rodef Shalom, head chaplain for the Fairfax County Police Department and member of the Fairfax County Communities of Trust Committee, which was created in 2015 to improve relations between public safety agencies and the communities they serve. The panelists were: ❖ Mary Ann Panarelli, director of intervention and prevention services for Fairfax County Public Schools; ❖ Brenda Wilks, assistant superintendent of the Department of Student Services and Special Education for Arlington County Public Schools; and ❖ Steven Gordon, assistant attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice and civil rights coordinator for the Eastern District of Virginia Panarelli talked about the school system’s Restorative Justice Program in Discipline. The project is a formal and facilitated process that brings victims together with perpetrators of wrongdoing to discuss incidents with a purpose of creating an agreement for reparation of harm. “It is a voluntary process and it is critical that it remain voluntary,” Panarelli said. “I cannot force a child to participate in a restorative justice process. If the child is saying, ‘I didn’t do this,’ it makes no sense to put them into a restorative justice process.” An advantage of this process, according to Panarelli, is that the parents of all students involved are invited to witness the conferences that occur during the program, when other forms of discipline usually requires confidentiality that bars schools from

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Walk/Run for Freedom raises awareness of teen sex trafficking in Northern Virginia. By Alex Pena The Connection

undreds gathered Saturday morning on the south lawn of the Fairfax County Government center to participate in the Just Ask Walk/Run for Freedom. Participants either ran two miles or walked one to increase awareness and prevent teen sex trafficking in Northern Virginia. After a brief warm-up involving Zumba and salsa dancing, three speakers greeted the attendees and talked about why they were here today. Jodi O’Hern, Schools Sector chair for Just Ask and the organizer of the event, said, “We have a problem in this county and in the United States that a lot of people want to put in the closet. A lot of people don’t want to talk about this issue,” she said. “But the only way we’re going to eradicate this issue … is if we start talking about this issue.” Teen sex trafficking has been reported in every public high school in Fairfax County, along with many middle schools and some elementary schools. Most of the people trafficked in Fairfax County don’t come from foreign countries, they are county residents. Many believe that trafficking involves kidnapping and taking a child away from their families, but most victims live at home while they are being trafficked. They are typically trafficked right after school, unbeknownst to their parents. O’Hern said this is part of the reason they have a hard time getting people to understand the issue. “People think that it’s like the movie ‘Taken’ but it’s not at all,” she said. “It’s just regular kids in regular circumstances.” Detective Bill Woolf, of the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force, said that if he has learned one thing in his many years of fighting trafficking, it is that prevention is possible. “That is our whole goal here, to educate everybody about the realities of trafficking,” he said speaking to the crowd after O’Hern. “Prevention does work. And it starts with all of us here talking about the issue.” Deepa Patel, executive director of Trauma and Hope, a counselor for victims of trafficking, discussed how traumatic and damaging the long-term consequences can be. Having worked in the intervention phase of the problem, Patel described how victims have difficulties forming relationships and suffer from things like paranoia and depression, issues which are often left untreated. “Now we have to start looking at it from the prevention angle. That means talk-

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Hundreds gathered Saturday morning on the south lawn of the Fairfax County Government center to participate in the Just Ask Walk/Run for Freedom.

Teen sex trafficking has been reported in every public high school in Fairfax County, along with many middle schools and some elementary schools.

More information about how to prevent trafficking and how to get help is available at www.justaskprevention.com ing to others, having those uncomfortable conversations,” she said. “Once we can kind of build this bigger community, we can ourselves work together to eradicate this problem.” TRAFFICKERS TEND to prey upon vulnerable children who either have low selfesteem or a difficult home life, and can spend up to 6 to 9 months grooming a victim. Many of them meet victims online on a variety of social media websites, but they also go to public places that are popular with children such as shopping malls and sporting events. “Traffickers give these kids a false sense of security,” O’Hern said. “They

make them think that they’re their friend, but in the end their number one goal is to exploit these kids.” O’Hern said that parents should be aware of tell-tale signs that their child might be falling victim to trafficking. Children may start to dress differently, alienate themselves from their friends, and also start to receive expensive gifts. Human trafficking is the fastest-growing sector of organized crime and the third largest criminal enterprise in the world, according the the FBI. More information about how to prevent trafficking and how to get help is available at www.justaskprevention.com.

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Langley High School Principal Fred Amico bestowed the Principal’s Award to Camron Saba. “His ability to achieve in the face of adversity is nothing less than inspirational,” Amico said. “Mostly, I admire his unfailing optimism. Being around him makes me happy to be at Langley.”

Andrew Craver, Langley High School Class of 2017 Student Government Association vice president, welcomed the crowd to the ceremony and wished his peers congratulations.

Graham Gives Guidance To Langley Graduates By Fallon Forbush The Connection

ive hundred two gradu ates received their high school diplomas during Langley High School’s commencement ceremony at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, June 15. The ceremony raised a range of emotions and a celebrated alumna came back to town to offer words of wisdom for her alma mater’s newest batch of budding adults. Andrew Craver, the class of 2017 Student Government Association vice president, welcomed the audience and congratulated his peers to begin the ceremony. He also took a moment to mention a classmate who was missing from the celebration: Matthew Vernon Poyner. Poyner died unexpectedly on Feb. 24, 2015, in his sleep of acute viral myocarditis, which is the inflammation of the myocardium heart muscle. “This year, we raised over $7,000 for the Matthew Vernon Poyner Memorial Foundation,” Craver said to loud applause. The charity organization is dedicated to honoring and preserving Poyner’s legacy by awarding scholarships to college-bound seniors at area high schools; supporting the Warrior Canine Connection and its mission to help combat veterans through canine therapy; and supporting the work of the Johns Hopkins Medicine myocarditis research team to develop early detection and treatment of myocarditis through a fund established in Poyner’s name. Following the Pledge of Allegiance led by SGA Class of 2017 Representative Kareem Al-Attar and the national anthem sang by

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Langley High School Class of 1984 alumna Lauren Graham, author, actor and producer most recognized for her role as Lorelai Gilmore on the popular TV series “Gilmore Girls,” delivered the keynote address during the ceremony. the Langley High School Madrigals, SGA Class of 2017 Representative Colin Dunne led the hall in a moment of silence and remembrance for “those who could not be with us today,” he said. THE OCCASION continued with the introduction of the keynote speaker from the school’s class of 1984: alumna Lauren Graham. Graham is a well-known author, actor and producer most recognized for her role as Lorelai Gilmore on the popular TV series “Gilmore Girls,” which she reprised in a reunion miniseries on Netflix in 2016. She talked to the students about a time before she was famous, before she appeared on Broadway, before she became a New York Times best-selling author and before she was nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards. She spoke of the early ’80s when she was navigating the hurdles and social trappings of high

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Dane Hoover, 18, celebrates as he walks down the stage to accept his diploma from Principal Fred Amico.

school. At the time, she said that she knew she wanted to be an actor, participating in the school’s musical theater program all four years. This path was not a steady climb. As a freshman, she was cast as townsperson No. 3 in the school’s spring musical “Li’l Abner.” “As townspeople, we were taught by our teacher that an easy way to look like we were genuinely conversing with one another was to mouth the words, ‘rutabaga, rutabaga,’ while nodding and clapping and smiling when we weren’t singing,” Graham said. “For fun, a few of us occasionally went totally rogue with an unsanctioned, ‘watermelon, watermelon,’” she added. Sophomore year, she landed a speaking part in the musical “Anything Goes” and was also asked to understudy for a senior who was playing the lead role of Reno Sweeney. “I was thrilled and I worked hard

with a voice teacher,” she said. “I listened to the Broadway cast recording and tried my best to copy every single thing that Patti LuPone did on the album.” She would only stand in during a rehearsal while the senior was away for a chorale concert, she said. Graham’s big break came when she was cast as Dolly Levi in the musical “Hello, Dolly!” her junior year. “That year, of course, I copied most of my performance from the Barbra Streisand movie version,” she said. After standing ovations for all of her performances in the lead role, auditions eventually rolled around for the musical the school would be performing during her senior year: “Once Upon a Mattress.” “There were not one, but two great leading roles,” Graham said. “Friends rolled their eyes when I expressed any anxiety. They said, ‘Please, it’s just which role are you going to get. It’s the only ques-

tion.’” It was not the only question— by far. “I opened my mouth and I was off,” she said as she recalled her audition. “The key was wrong, my voice squeaked and I just lost it. I finished the song but I never really recovered.” She was not cast in a leading role nor a role that sang. “It was a speaking part, but I don’t even think my character had a name,” she said. She felt embarrassed and her friends felt embarrassed for her. Her self-described “senior slump” continued the night of the first performance when she slid on ice on Georgetown Pike. She was fine but her car had to be towed and she was driven to the school in a police car. Her teacher asked if she was OK to perform and she began to feel a sense of relief, imagining not performing or facing the embarrassment of her downgraded part. That’s when she felt a tap on her shoulder from Jenny, “a pretty blonde sophomore” who didn’t have a speaking role. “She said, ‘Lauren, I heard what happened. I’m so sorry. I just want you to know if you can’t do the show tonight’ … and then she paused and her eyes narrowed and she got like a killer look … she’s like, ‘I know all your lines.’” Quickly, Graham snapped out of her funk. “Suddenly, I was OK … looking into Jenny’s eyes, I saw ambition and fire and maybe just a little bit of greed,” she said. To Graham, her small role was a demotion, but it was an opportunity worth fighting for to Jenny. “Maybe that’s the way things always are,” she told the graduates. “You don’t own the heights www.ConnectionNewspapers.com

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Langley High School Class of 2017 Student Government Association President Kaitlin Bonacci presents actor and author Lauren Graham, alumna of the high school’s class of 1984, with a bouquet of flowers for keynoting the commencement.

A celebrated alumna came back to town to offer words of wisdom. any more than you do the lows. An experience that’s unpleasant to you maybe someone else’s dream next step. One thing is guaranteed: Neither state is personal to you; they’re both just a part of life. No matter what, you’re bound to experience both extremes.” Graham continued to philosophize. OUT IN THE REAL WORLD, like on the Saxon Stage, she has had successes and slumps as “the girl who has the lead and the girl who wishes she had a bigger part,” she told the graduates. “The secret is they’re not that different from one another. They don’t feel that different. The difference is not in what life brings you, it’s truly in how you choose to handle it.” Graham admitted she was far from focused on her future when she sat in her cap and gown in 1984, telling the crowd that the envelope she received during her commencement just had a blank piece of paper inside, her diploma held hostage until she paid her long overdue library fines. “The most thrilling event looming was not college or my summer internship, but the fact that I had been invited to the graduation after party that night at Jacky’s house,” she said. Jacky, Graham said, was a popular classmate who was always throwing parties while her parents were out of town. “I had never been invited to Jacky’s house before,” she said. “I didn’t even think she knew who I was.” Later that night, she told the crowd, she sat on the hood of a football player’s green Ford Bronco while sipping a purple wine cooler as everyone mingled. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com

Though she eventually achieved the dreams she had dreamt in high school, it wasn’t without its challenges. An example she gave was when she appeared on Broadway as Miss Adelaide in the revival of the musical “Guys and Dolls” in 2009. Graham wasn’t a dancer, but her character was, so she struggled with choreography and audiences were both hot and cold, she said. “Within just one week of performances, I cycled through the same waves I’d experienced in high school,” she said. “Certain nights felt dreamy and joyous and others felt like senior slump.” She avoided reading the negative critics, until she walked into a deli where she came face-towith a photo of her and a cast member on the front of a publication staring at her from a newsstand bearing the headline, “Guys and Dulls,” she said. “It was so awful,” she said. “I jumped away from the paper like it was on fire.” The entire experience wasn’t anything close to her childhood dream of performing on Broadway, but she didn’t pout, she said. “All I could do was try to stay positive for myself and all of the Jennies out there who hoped to one day stand in those shoes,” she said. She told the graduates that enjoying life isn’t about successes, but rather satisfaction is when people love what they do. “Maybe it’s not theater for you,” she said. “Maybe it’s baseball or writing or coding, but whatever path you choose; the important thing is you keep finding your joy in what you’re doing, especially when the joy is not finding you.” Great Falls Connection ❖ June 21-27, 2017 ❖ 9