Hungary Creek Middle School

Infobox School | name = Hungary Creek Middle school


established = 2001
type = Public Middle School
principal = Elizabeth K. Armbruster
free_label = Colors
Mascot
free_text = Green and Blue
Cougar
location = 4909 Francistown Road
Glen Allen, VA 23060
information = [phone]
website = [http://www.henrico.k12.va.us/ms/hungarycreek/index.html Hungary Creek website]

Hungary Creek Middle School is a public middle school in Glen Allen, in Richmond, Virginia's West End, serving students from sixth grade to eighth grade. It is located in the Three Chopt District of the Henrico County Public Schools division. [http://www.henrico.k12.va.us/ms/hungarycreek/index.html] /HungaryCreek Middle School] accessed February 22, 2007]

History

The school opened in September 2004 after controversy over where the district boundaries would be drawn and which students would go there. The school was built because of overcrowding at other middle schools in the area. [ [http://www.richmond.com/education/output.aspx?Article_ID=2885294 Henrico's Edwards resigns; new middle school receives name, boundaries] by Polly Roberts, Richmon.com, February 27, 2004]

Controversy

In 2006 Hungary Creek got attention in the press when a student took a cookie from a teachers cookie jar and was suspended for a day as well as being removed from the baseball team. [ [http://alacarte.lexisnexis.com/partners/int/google/landingpage.asp?id=15890606&mtid=1&ws=9j0hDk1UboE=&ws_pub=Richmond%20Times%20Dispatch%20(Virginia)&ws_date=June%205,%202006&ws_len=387&ws_lni=4K4M-HYM0-TXCG-82DC-00000-00&ws_lastupdate=20060608&ws_title=Parent%20objects%20to%20cookie-stealing%20punishment&ws_refer=http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&q=Hungary+Creek+Middle+school&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn Parent objects to cookie-stealing punishment; 'They need to have an understanding of why that's theft,' mother says] ] [ [http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=811374 Suspension in Cookie Theft Case Upheld] WTOPnews.com, Associated Press, June 6, 2006] The story was even picked on syndicated columnist Dave Barry's blog where it was quipped "Well duh, he was a Hungary student". [ [http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2006/06/virginia_school.html VIRGINIA SCHOOLS: SOFT ON CRIME] ]

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