Officials remove kids from Asheville Academy after second suicide

WEAVERVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — State health officials confirm that all children have been removed from Asheville Academy, but the facility’s license has not been revoked.

The removal of the academy’s students comes after a 12-year-old girl died by suicide there last week.

She was the second student to take her own life there in May, after a 13-year-old girl.

This comes less than one week after all admissions to Asheville Academy were ordered to be suspended effective immediately after the state found multiple licensing violations…

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