Suburban Myths(such as, "We only use 10% of our brain")
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An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf. It now has a years-long waitlist.Dillon Helbig, a second-grader who lives in Idaho, wrote about a Christmas adventure on the pages of a red-cover notebook and illustrated it with colored pencils.
When he finished it in mid-December, he decided he wanted to share it with other people. So much, in fact, that he hatched a plan and waited for just the right moment to pull it off.
Days later, during a visit to the Ada Community Library’s Lake Hazel Branch in Boise with his grandmother, he held the 81-page book to his chest and passed by the librarians. Then, unbeknown to his grandmother, Dillon slipped the book onto a children’s picture-book shelf. Nobody saw him do it....
Former NFL lineman now cooks at his kids’ school cafeteria: ‘Kindergartners are my toughest critics’Retired NFL offensive lineman Jared Veldheer was looking for a new challenge in Grand Rapids, Mich., last summer when he heard about a job opening. It was at his kids’ school, in the cafeteria.
The Catholic school needed someone to oversee cooking and serving lunch for about 260 students from preschool to eighth grade. The previous manager had quit, and the school wanted to line up somebody quickly because classes were to start in two weeks.
“I wasn’t looking to become the school lunch lady, but I figured this was something I could handle,” said Veldheer, 34, who was once named one of the NFL’s “most indispensable players.”
Veldheer, who played for several teams, including the Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders, said he was intrigued by the job in part because he loves cooking, and as a professional athlete, he spent a lot of time focused on nutrition.
“I’d eaten meticulously for more than a decade and I thought, ‘There is value in being able to cook and provide kids with a good, nutritious lunch,’” said Veldheer, whose two children, Eva, 6, and Edwin, 4, attend Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic School....
More than half of her class had never seen snow. So a Florida teacher got her sister to ship her a snowman.In November, a classroom of kindergartners listened attentively as their teacher, Robin Hughes, read them a book about snow.
But as the Riverview, Fla., special education teacher flipped through its pages and showed them photos of children sledding and making snow angels, Hughes, 60, noticed some students looked puzzled.
“How many [of you] have seen snow?” Hughes asked her class at SouthShore Charter Academy. Only a couple of kids raised their hands.
“I was shocked that they had not seen snow,” Hughes, who grew up in Louisa, Ky., told The Washington Post. “It’s hard for kids to understand the concept because they don’t have the relevant knowledge.”
So Hughes called in a favor to someone she knew might be able to help: her sister in Danville, Ky.
“Do you want to build a snowman?” Hughes texted her sister, Amber Estes, in January. Estes recalled her sister’s request when her town was hit with about 10 inches of snow....
A school district yanked chocolate milk off the menu. A 9-year-old got his entire class to protest.The powers that be took something precious from Jordan Reed, but he vowed to fight back.
His chosen tools: well-researched arguments, protest signs and the backing of dozens of others who had also been robbed.
Together, they would try to bring back chocolate milk.
Jordan, a 9-year-old fourth-grader at Sierra Vista K-8 School in Northern California, took to heart last week’s lesson about opinion writing, unleashing what he had learned of Vacaville Unified School District’s 2020 decision to remove chocolate milk from the lunch menu. Within roughly 24 hours, Jordan turned the classroom instruction into a protest with his 26 classmates — and one sixth-grader — that drew the school district’s nutrition department to Sierra Vista for an impromptu, on-the-spot negotiation with Jordan and his comrades.
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