Year: 2020

When is the first day for KC-area districts?

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Kansas City-area students and teachers are gearing up to return to school this month.

For kids on the Kansas side, school starts as early as this coming week. But on the Missouri side, districts can’t start classes until two weeks before the first Monday in September, so students get a little more summer time.

But who’s going back to school first? And who has the most summer left? Find your district’s start date and see how it stacks up to others below:

Kansas

Wyandotte County

Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools

The first day of school for Pre-K through 6th and 9th graders is Aug. 15. All other students join Aug. 16. KCKPS also has a back-to-school fair scheduled for Aug. 6 where all students across Wyandotte County can receive school supplies, books, sports physicals, immunizations and more.

Piper School District

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The Last Class Session: How to Make It Count

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“First and last class sessions are the bookends that hold a course together.” I heard or read that somewhere—apologies to the source I can’t acknowledge. It’s a nice way to think about first and last class sessions. In general, teachers probably do better with the first class. There’s the excitement that comes with a new beginning. A colleague said it this way: “Nothing bad has happened yet.” Most of us work hard to make good first impressions. But by the time the last class rolls around, everyone is tired, everything is due, and the course sputters to an end amid an array of last-minute details. Here are a few ideas that might help us finish the semester with the same energy and focus we mustered for the first class.

Integrate the content

Bring it all together. You could integrate things for your students, but it’s better if they do it

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Public Schools?

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Public SchoolSchool uniforms have expanded to public faculties of late. Having taken the thought from religious institutes, many public schools around the globe require students to wear uniforms. The debate over whether or not uniforms are essential is ongoing. Some folks say that faculty uniforms are an essential a part of a practical learning atmosphere. Other folks say that they inhibit the creativity of the students. While uniforms can typically be beneficial, the world ought to get rid of their existence.

I was raised Christian Baptist and lived in a really strict dwelling. My mother and father are smart loving individuals but they were not prepared nor prepared to create an academic and social setting that benefited me probably the most. In homechooling dad and mom get pleasure from monopolising the whole lot that their children study. To some, this might be a very good factor but I will attempt to …

Parents are enrolling their kids in Catholic school

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More parents are enrolling their kids in private Christian schools today in an effort to combat the woke curriculum of many of America’s public schools. They’re choosing to put kids in schools that support the faith and values ​​they offer at home.

“Fox & Friends First” co-host Carly Shimkus talked with the Rev. Jadyn Nelson, president of Bishop Ryan Catholic School, and parent Perry Olsen on Wednesday morning, Aug. 24, 2022, about the current move by some parents to leave public school education behind.

Nelson explained that his school, in Minot, North Dakota, is seeing increased interest from parents in private Christian education.

“This year we are up 6% [in enrollment] overall, and we’ve been seeing year-over-year gains around 5% for the last five years,” Nelson said.

“Sixty-seven new families for a small school like ours is good interest in what we’re doing here.”

The Rev. Jadyn Nelson and parent Perry Olsen explained the benefits of a Catholic school education, which includes continuing the values ​​and morals that kids are taught in the home.

The Rev. Jadyn Nelson and parent

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Lacey man, spurred by Texas school shooting, now stands guard

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Meet Anthony Triplett Jr. He’s 31, he lives near Lacey and he’s a nine-year Army veteran with two children enrolled in North Thurston Public Schools’ Evergreen Forest Elementary and Nisqually Middle School.

He has worked in federal security, he says, and he followed that by forming a nonprofit called All in a Days Work to address veteran suicides.

And then on May 24, a mass school shooting unfolded in Uvalde, Texas, killing 21 people, including 19 students.

Triplett’s children asked him if they had to return to school the next day.

“It was heartbreaking,” said Triplett. Galvanized by the moment, Triplett asked himself, “What can I do?”

Around the time of the Texas shooting, there were elevated concerns about school safety, said North Thurston Public Schools spokesman Aaron Wyatt. Some in the community offered to patrol school hallways and some asked if bullet-proof glass could be installed, he recalls.

Triplett

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