Schools Sending 'Fat Letters' Home To Parents With Bigger Kids | The Rubin Report

Schools in 19 states have started to conduct annual weigh-ins of students that test for their body mass index, which is used to determine if someone is overweight or obese, and then sending students home with reports of the results.

Referred to the students as "fat letters," states across the country from New York to Arkansas to Illinois are participating in the program.

Won't these notes damage the self-esteem of the kids at an age where they are already susceptible to forming eating...

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From: The Rubin Report

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Metro Schools Experiencing Teacher Shortage

Hundreds of parents with children in Metro Nashville Public Schools had letters sent home this week telling them that their kids were having to take online courses in the classroom due to a teacher shortage.

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From: NewsChannel 5

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5 Year Old Kindergarten Student Reading Letter to Parents from School Nurse

Our daughter has been reading since she was 3 years old. She just started kindergarten. Here she is reading a paper sent home for parents from the school nurse.

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From: DJones

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Some parents alarmed over bed bug letter in Lackawanna

Some kept their children home from school

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From: WIVBTV

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Parents in Mountain's Edge receive letters warning of suspicious woman luring in children

According to the Clark County School District, there have been three similar incidents in the Mountain's Edge community that have sparked nearby schools to send home letters.

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From: KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas

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A Letter From My Mom | Parent Engagement

Before school, parents and families write letters to their children.

Questions and reflections:

• How do these children benefit from hearing the letters written by their parents?

• What concepts about print and alphabetic knowledge are the children developing; and which of these concepts transfer between languages?

• How do these dual language learners benefit from this small-group setting, and how can a teacher arrange small-group settings each day?

• What teaching strategies,...

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From: Teaching At The Beginning Videos

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Home-School Connection: Practicing Letter Sounds and Sight Words (Virtual Tour)

Students are encouraged to practice letter sounds each night with their parents. See the lesson plan at http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50212/ and do a virtual tour of this teacher’s classroom at http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/JKTA.html. Also go to http://www.LitDiet.org for more free teaching activities and virtual classroom tours.

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From: The Balanced Literacy Diet

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Westside parents warned about cyberbullying

Letter sent home to parents on first day of school

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From: 3 News Now

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Islamic School, Public school or Home Schooling? - The Deen Show

This is a Must Watch for every Parent who wants the best for their Child! Private School? Public School? Or home schooling? Find out what really goes on in the Public & Private Schools with the youth who have gone wild in todays day and age of great technology but also great moral decline .

A panel of 4 Experts will be giving us the inside scoop of what is really happening in these institutions and what is the best direction to take in educating our children.

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From: Digital Mimbar

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Parents Puzzled By CT Walker Spanish Teacher Not "Highly Qualified" Letter

CT Walker Magnet School parents wanted more answers after a qualification letter was sent home about their children's Spanish Teacher.

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From: WJBF

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