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Teens' Suicides Breed Anxiety
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Officials of the 140,000-student Montgomery County school system would say little about the deaths or comment on academic pressure. "Any suicide is tragic," Superintendent Jerry D. Weast said. "My heart goes out to the families."
Two days before Stanford's death, Einstein's Parent Teacher Association hosted a program on helping students deal with academic stress.
Fernandez said that students were "sad and concerned" and that several teachers were also deeply affected. He said that the school will operate as normal but that the deaths will not be ignored.
Hundreds of people attended a vigil for Karunaratne a few days after he died, and fellow students spoke of how he would stay up until 3 a.m. helping them with their schoolwork, determined that they understand it, his father said.
Stanford's funeral will be held at noon today at Collins Funeral Home in Silver Spring.
Over the weekend, friends of Stanford shared their confusion and sorrow on xanga.com, a site where some students post their Web logs.
"What is it about life?" one person wrote. "Why do people feel the need to give theirs up?"
Wrote another: "Why does it seem like as soon as we start to heal, something else goes wrong?"
Staff writer Dan Morse contributed to this report.
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