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While our kids fall further and further behind the world in math and science this is how FCPS responds
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Teacher's Local #134
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Date: December 20, 2019 02:46PM
In the Spotlight: Kilmer Middle School Students Use Plastic Bags to Make Mats for Homeless Veterans
When students at Kilmer Middle School decided to give back to the community this year, they chose to do a service project as a group while giving a disposable item a new purpose. Sheryl Jones’ class learned about an attitude of gratitude, then decided to make mats for homeless veterans, providing them with a weatherproof barrier against the cold ground and trapping heat to provide some warmth.
The students enlisted the Kilmer Middle community for donations of plastic grocery bags; each mat requires approximately 700-800 bags to make and takes a total of 6-8 hours each to weave.
Teacher's Local #134 Wrote:
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In the Spotlight: Kilmer Middle School
> Students Use Plastic Bags to Make Mats for
> Homeless Veterans
> When students at Kilmer Middle School decided to
> give back to the community this year, they chose
> to do a service project as a group while giving a
> disposable item a new purpose. Sheryl Jones’
> class learned about an attitude of gratitude, then
> decided to make mats for homeless veterans,
> providing them with a weatherproof barrier against
> the cold ground and trapping heat to provide some
> warmth.
>
> The students enlisted the Kilmer Middle community
> for donations of plastic grocery bags; each mat
> requires approximately 700-800 bags to make and
> takes a total of 6-8 hours each to weave.
Great idea! They may not be able to read or pass an Algebra II test but they will now know how to make a mat to stay dry when their parents grow tired of their worthless basement dwellers and throw them out onto the streets.
Re: While our kids fall further and further behind the world in math and science this is how FCPS responds
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right then
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Date: January 04, 2020 04:30PM
So someone spent 8 hours weaving 800 plastic bags together into a mat, so that some homeless person can sleep for 8 hours on said mat. Then the next morning the homeless person walks away and the 800 plastic bags end up going into the trash when the sanitation people clean up after the homeless people. That is not an efficient use of time or recyclable materials. GO FAIRFAX!!!
Re: While our kids fall further and further behind the world in math and science this is how FCPS responds
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Its Not Americas Fault
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Date: January 04, 2020 10:36PM
Its The Democrats fault
PC revisionist history renaming schools Overcrowding By illegals welfare leech Immigrants Socialist and now communist adoration boys using girls bathrooms packing admin hq with excess useless bureaucrats exaggerated science climate claims gun free kill zones for armed killers blaming everyone for anyone's problems psychobabble not reason while the real reasons keep marching on
Re: While our kids fall further and further behind the world in math and science this is how FCPS responds
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The Homeless Man Speaks
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Date: January 04, 2020 10:53PM
We don't need no stinking mats to carry about, all we need is a steam grate and a 5 spot now and then when we panhandle to get something to eat
To hell with it we have tried and tried . After all the cheapest apts are filled up with illegals for votes for Democrats in the future or there taken up by unskilled immigrants on public assistance , illegals can pay any landlords rent when they pack in 10 to a 2 bedroom and the unskilled immigrants don't pay their fair share
Democrats care more about illegals and unskilled foreign nationals who can not make enough to live on and get welfare and low rent subsidized apts then US citizens who lost our jobs during the "Obama Economy" when so may businesses went out.
Man I tell you Democrats are the cause of all the millions of homeless out California way , here , there and everything wrong with America today
It used to be that underwater basket weaving was the joke class we all laughed at when we described the failure of the modern liberal educational sustem. Leave it to FCPS to take the joke as an instruction manual.