Sentences with phrase «older kids in the public schools»

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Plus those with older kids can clue me in to how to approach the next stage, how the public school system works, etc..

But in terms of the tone used by the lunch room volunteers — I will say that my two kids are now old veterans of public elementary school lunch rooms and they've certainly endured their share of barking lunch room monitors.

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

Meanwhile a video released last month by the American Civil Liberties Union showing a Kenton County, Ky., school police officer handcuffing an eight - year - old kid in special ed once again cast light on how American public education has escalated overuse of harsh discipline by using law enforcement to deal with behavioral issues that should be handled by teachers and school leaders.

But public schools aren't the only institutions receiving public money to educate kids; Wisconsin is home to three robust parental choice programs — the oldest in the country in Milwaukee, as well as growing endeavors in Racine and statewide.