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Tim Ruggere, assistant principal at Dedham High School, used a microphone last month to end the first-period lunch session rather than a bell.

It tolls not for them

A familiar ring is lost as some high schools silence the bell system

By Maria Sacchetti
Globe Staff / December 4, 2006

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DEDHAM -- As Ms. Mastroianni's history lesson wound to a close last week, papers shuffled, notebooks snapped shut, and sneakers pointed toward the door. (Full article: 923 words)

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