CAIRO, Neb. (AP) - A central Nebraska school board has decided to let the 2017-18 yearbook include memorials to two teenage students killed in a traffic accident.
The Centura Junior/Senior High School students, 16-year-old Bailey Jean Packer and 17-year-old Navi Nielsen, died in March after a one-car crash in rural Howard County.
Administrators had told relatives and grieving friends that the district was following policy and a consultant’s training on student grieving in denying a request for a yearbook memorial page.
Dozens of people attended a special school board meeting Monday night in Cairo (KAY’-roh) to support the memorial request, and the school board voted unanimously to allow the yearbook tributes. The two girls also will appear in photos of their sports teams and other activities.
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