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If the student's brain doesn't have the energy it needs to work right -- it won't.

Almost pointless to try and educate hungry or malnourished kids.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sat Feb 28th, 2009 at 07:09:44 PM EST
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And to that end, can we please ban candy, chips and sugar-containing sodas from our schools? Trying to teach a class of kids who are hopped up to their nostrils on sugar is an exercise in herding cats and teaching them tricks at the same time.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Mar 1st, 2009 at 02:48:43 AM EST
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