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• No more canned green beans!

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: Canned Green Beans, Elementary School Kids, Las Vegas, Lasvegas

  in Las Vegas, NV, a group of elementary school students were unhappy with the amount of canned green beans that the school cafeteria was serving them and decided to take action. Led by their teacher, they wrote polite letters to the cafeteria manager, expressing how they liked the food, with the exception of the green beans. Impressed by the

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• Shaolin Boxing Added to Curriculum

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: International Education, Curriculum, Elementary School, Shaolin Boxing

  boxing when they were in elementary school."A local education bureau in Henan revealed that teaching materials written by Zhengzhou's Wushu Martial Arts Association and will be incorporated into nine elementary schools.Shaolin boxing will become a formal course beginning

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• Colorado Elementary School Bans Kids from Playing Tag on the Playground

  Published: August 30, 2007, 2:36 pm

  Tags: General Education, Colorado, Discovery, Elementary School, Game, Running, Tag

  elementary school in Colorado Springs has banned the game of tag from its hallowed school ground because children complained they were being harassed or chased against their will. "Mommy! Mommy! He called me 'It'." Uh, I think that's the point of the game. But, what do I know?The assistant principal said the game

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• Skipping a grade in school

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Academics, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, First Grade, Firstgrade, Kindergarten, Montessori, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Second Grade, Secondgrade, Skip First Grade, Skip Grade, Skipfirstgrade, Skipgrade, Skipping Grades, Skippi

  under: Teachers, Preschool, Elementary school, Public school, Private school, Going to school, 6-7 yearsIn my state, a child must be five years old on September 1st in order to enroll in kindergarten. Ellie missed that date by three weeks, meaning she couldn't officially start kindergarten until she was almost six years old. Instead, she

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• Oops, you're entering a 'shcool' zone

  Published: September 9, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: Elementary School, Elementaryschool, School, Spelling

  under: Elementary school As kids are heading back to class, getting ready to do some reading, writing, and arithmetic, one school district is learning first-hand just how important those skill are. The photo above was taken near Northwood Elementary in Kalamazoo, Michigan -- I imagine you've already noticed the unfortunate spelling error.

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• Special ed...for profit?

  Published: September 9, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Education, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, High School, Highschool, Middle School, Middleschool, Private School, Privateschool, Public School, Publicschool, School, Special Ed, Special Education, Specialed, Specialeducation

  under: Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Private schoolThe worlds of for-profit business and education seem almost fundamentally at odds. However, one man has managed to bring special ed services to almost 8,000 students -- and he's making money in the process. Mark Claypool used to be a social worker, but got

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• Celebrating birthdays at school

  Published: September 16, 2007, 8:03 am

  Tags: Birthday, Birthday Cake, Birthdaycake, Birthdays, Children, Classroom, Cupcake, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, Food Ban, Foodban, Junk Food, Junkfood, Kids, Parents, Public School, Publicschool, School, School Birthday Parties, Schoolbirthdayparties, Sugar, Sweets, Teach

  under: Teachers, Elementary school, Public school, Private school, 6-7 years, BirthdaysEllie's 7th birthday falls on a school day this year. In the past, she attended a small private school where bringing treats to share with the class was not only allowed, it was expected. But now that she is public school, the rules have changed and the

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• Blue Man Group starts nursery school

  Published: September 19, 2007, 5:06 am

  Tags: Alternative Education, Alternativeeducation, Blue Man Group, Bluemangroup, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, Nursery School, Nurseryschool, Pre School, School

  under: Preschool, Private schoolAfter an amazing performance career spanning 16 years, countless productions, and overwhelming international success, Matt Goldman and Chris Wink -- two of the three founding members of Blue Man Group -- decided it was time to do something different. Both married with young children, the performers have

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• Sneaking sugary drinks back into schools

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Calories, Children Nutrition, Childrennutrition, Coke, Elementary School, Elementaryschool, Health, High School, Highschool, Middle School, Middleschool, Nutrition, Pepsi, School, School Vending Machine, Schoolvendingmachine, Soda, Soda Machine, Sodamachine, Sports Drink

  Feeding & Nutrition, Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public schoolLast year, when the nation's three largest beverage companies agreed to remove their sugary drinks from school vending machines, they were applauded. Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Cadbury Schweppes voluntarily agreed to offer only water, low-fat milk and 100

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• 6-year-old ran school 'sex club'

  Published: September 21, 2007, 9:03 am

  Tags: Elementary School, Elementaryschool, School

  under: Elementary school, 6-7 yearsAn Australian boy apparently thought it was about time he and his peers started investigating their sexuality. The 6-year-old formed a "sex club" at his elementary school, where children got together to talk about whatever ideas kids have about sex at that age. What's worse, however, is that the boy

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• Principal's Suicide Ruled Work-related Accident

  Published: September 26, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: International Education, Accident, Elementary School, Japan, Principal, Suicide

  ruled that a 60-year old elementary school principal accidentally committed suicide due to his work.When one of his teachers made discriminatory remarks toward the sister of another student, the sister refused to come to school.The girl's sister was handicapped.When the principal, according to the family, could not get any support from

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• 3, 5, 8: What awaits?

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Charlisms, Parenting, Money, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Elementary School, Family, Health, Intermediate, Middle School, Money, Pdd Nos, Primary

  come to realize) for the school system, who is still seeking to figure out how to teach a child like Chalrie in a public school setting. Charlie, who will be 11 next May, starts middle school next year. You might catch (detect, that is) autism early, but it is a lifelong journey. 16 may not be such a milestone for Charlie as he will not be

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• ESA Seeks Audience in Elementary Schools for Anti-Piracy Ed

  Published: October 3, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Gamer Life, Games Industry, Game Related Laws, Anti Piracy, Elementary School Students, Entertainment Software Association, Esa

  focused our efforts on elementary school children,” said Ric Hirsch, the ESA’s senior vice president of intellectual property enforcement. “At those ages, children are open to receiving messages, guidelines, rules of the road, if you will, with respect to intellectual property.” The ESA has already developed a

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• No, I cannot help with [insert name of school volunteer thing here]

  Published: October 4, 2007, 6:00 am

  Tags: Elementary School, Private School, School, Volunteering, Working Moms

  under: Elementary school, Going to school, Working from home, Working momsMy sons go to a small Catholic school. This school relies heavily on parent involvement, both because it's good for parents to be part of the school community, and because having volunteers take care of various jobs around the campus keeps costs down. I am all in

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• Are your kids pressuring you to go green?

  Published: October 4, 2007, 2:02 pm

  Tags: An Inconvenient Truth, Aninconvenienttruth, Bacich Elementary School, Bacichelementaryschool, Children, Educators, Environmental Awareness, Environmentalawareness, Green Kids, Greenkids, Kids, Kids Go Green, Parents, Political Statement, Politicalstatement, Recycle, Recy

  by their children's schools. When kids at Bacich Elementary School in Kentfield, California came home with fliers advertising a screening of An Inconvenient Truth, some parents got angry, saying it isn't the public school's place to promote what they consider to be a political statement. But school principal Sally Peck disagrees,

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