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The performance is designed to educate youngsters about the dangers of smoking; its puppeteers are six children who are home-schooled in Georgetown. They've performed their 25-minute show three times: once at a church and two other times at elementary schools in Georgetown.
After taking a break for the holidays, the group has a few shows in schools lined up for this month.
"From my kindergarten class to fifth grade, they all loved it and understood it," Ford Elementary physical education and health teacher Codie Johnson said. "I've already had other schools from Georgetown call and ask about them."
Read the article in the Statesman.com here.
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Homeschooled Children Educate Public School Students on The Dangers of Smoking
The performance is designed to educate youngsters about the dangers of smoking; its puppeteers are six children who are home-schooled in Georgetown. They've performed their 25-minute show three times: once at a church and two other times at elementary schools in Georgetown.
After taking a break for the holidays, the group has a few shows in schools lined up for this month.
"From my kindergarten class to fifth grade, they all loved it and understood it," Ford Elementary physical education and health teacher Codie Johnson said. "I've already had other schools from Georgetown call and ask about them."
Read the article in the Statesman.com here.
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The federal government's response to education needs after Hurricane Katrina has been "grossly inadequate," according to a national education group. The Southern Education Foundation released a report on the second anniversary of Katrina that said...
- St. Martin Upper Elementary
Students, teachers and faculty at St. Martin Upper Elementary School will receive more than $4,000 in new books and 10 quilts today as part of a service-based project fueled by caring students. The children of Cypress Ridge Elementary School in Clermont,...
- From O'donnell Web
Thanks COD. Orson Scott Card on the public schools and home education. There is no such thing as an "educational expert." There are people who have snookered us into paying them a lot of money because they claim to be experts on education, but it's...
- Bad Public School Teachers?
NYC Educator has a post on Bad Teachers which I found by way of VDare's Diversity Is Strength…It’s Also Really Bad Teachers post. The majority of public school teachers I know do an outstanding job, they are wonderful teachers and wonderful human...
- Homeschool Regulation: The Revenge Of The Failures
Visit WorldNetDaily to read Homeschool regulation: The revenge of the failures by Bruce N. Shortt, Ph.D. By attacking homeschool parents, Bounds is playing a familiar game. The goal is to distract the public's attention from the abject failure of...