Gabriel Rabah,<\/a> died Nov. 4, 2016. His name was included on the memorial wall, which became a meaningful place for the family to visit.<\/p>\n\u201cThat wall was not just a structure,\u201d Rabah wrote in his petition. \u201cIt was a place we could visit, reflect, and feel connected to Gabriel. Knowing his name was honored there brought comfort during an unimaginable time of grief.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rabah said his family was not notified when the memorial was removed. His wife learned of its removal during a visit to the school, and Rabah said it took approximately two weeks to retrieve his brother\u2019s plaque.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the remodel began and the memorial was taken down without any plan to replace it, that comfort was taken with it,\u201d Rabah wrote.<\/p>\n
Rabah launched an online petition asking Plano ISD to acknowledge the memorial\u2019s removal and commit to installing a permanent replacement on the renovated campus.<\/p>\n
The petition also requests that the district establish a committee of students, alumni and affected families to help design the new memorial, identify funding and a timeline for its installation, and place it in a prominent location.<\/p>\n
Within 35 hours of launching the petition, Rabah said it had collected more than 500 signatures. Now, it has over 1,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor our family, and for every family who lost someone remembered on that wall, the silence from the school district has been deeply painful,\u201d Rabah wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Plano Senior High School alumnus is calling on Plano ISD to replace a memorial honoring deceased students…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[158487,158488,37303,54748,160,162,2336,161,158489],"class_list":["post-465396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-change-org","tag-gabriel-rabah","tag-memorial","tag-petition","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-isd","tag-plano-news","tag-zack-rabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}