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Memorial High School students (from left) Helene Brown, Sydney Peak and Evan Ragland enjoy a game of charades during a weekly "backyard" meeting on Wednesday.

Memorial High School juniors (from left) Nathan Powell, Walter Cai and Valerie Shen talk with science teacher and faculty senate president Cindy Kellor (far left) in the cafeteria on Wednesday. The students, part of a student government system that involves 1 in 12 students, came up with a plan to improve the flow of students through the lunch line.

Many students and officials at Memorial High School, the first Madison high school to break itself into "small learning communities," say the system of small student groups worked well last week as the school began healing from a racially charged fight that occurred Oct. 16. Others, though, say they received too little information about the fight to fuel constructive discussions.

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