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LWolf

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1. I'd love to see

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 05:23 PM

Aug 2016

every student in America go to schools that, among other things, are small, intimate communities: 336 students, and keep classes small: 15 in K, 24 in 1-6.

Unfortunately, public schools don't get $30,000 a year per student to develop those kinds of things.

I like the Salutation of the Dawn; I'd much rather do that each morning than the mandated flag salute.

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Every school day morning Patti and Ron Reagan did this: [View all] cali Aug 2016 OP

I'd love to see LWolf Aug 2016 #1

Yeah, the salutation to the dawn, which the kids actually called "good morning sun" cali Aug 2016 #2

I've spent LWolf Aug 2016 #6

It sounds like you're in a good environment, and yes, of course, smaller is better. cali Aug 2016 #8

I heard Thom Hartmann describe Danish schools a few days ago. Ilsa Aug 2016 #3

Sounds very much like JTD- but for everyone, not just people who can afford it cali Aug 2016 #5

More on empathy: "Teaching kids empathy: In Danish schools, it’s … well, it’s a piece of cake" deurbano Aug 2016 #10

Right. My elementary school had... meaculpa2011 Aug 2016 #4

It's really LWolf Aug 2016 #7

I have no idea why the Reagans chose to send them to one of the most liberal schools you can imagine Jopin Klobe Aug 2016 #9

I suspect that it had more to do with it becoming fashionable for people cali Aug 2016 #11