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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A school’s job is to …
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
My email inbox gets flooded with news releases from different groups holding special programs at schools.
There’s the group working to combat childhood obesity. Another organization tells kids to walk or ride their bikes to school to promote clean air. Others visit schools to talk about art, recycling, finance and countless other topics.
Many of these groups promote noble causes, but do they belong in schools?
Schools were created to teach children. Somewhere along the way, schools became the go-to place to fix society’s problems. How are schools supposed to do both? In balancing both, what happens to the quality of education students receive?
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