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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting free program

The Immigrant Family Reunification Program (IFRP) is an effort by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) to identify immigrant students going through family reunification, and to invite their parents to participate in parenting education classes and take advantage of free resources such as Families Reunite (also in Spanish), a 6-hour curriculum for parents reunifying with their children. IFRP also offers a professional development workshop Immigrant Family Reunification:  Promoting Student Academic Engagement and resources for schools.

One-fifth of the nation's children are growing up in immigrant homes. The 2010 Census data reveals that 13% of the U.S. population is foreign born, a 20% increase since 2000. At the end of 2014, the Department of Homeland Security estimated that more than 90,000 unaccompanied minors could enter the US. As of June 2014, nearly 6,000 of those children arrived in Fairfax County.

http://www.fcps.edu/cco/fam/reunification.shtml[/quote]

THIS should be cut from the budget.[/quote]
Right, because after being separated from their parents for years, living in abject poverty in their home country, crossing the border with "coyotes" who have done who-knows-what to take advantage, the child is in a great state to be available for learning at school. There are no emotional issues whatsoever that impact the child at school. Everything is just perfect at school because it's just perfect at home, and no support is needed.

:roll: 
Cutting a program like this doesn't stop anyone from moving here. All it does is make a really hard situation even worse for both the child and the teachers who have to deal with the fallout. As a teacher, I'm not equipped to handle the social-emotional issues these kids have gone through. Yet these are issues that are impacting the classroom. A program like this is designed to take that burden off the school. When kids are happy and secure at home, they're happy and secure at school AND available for learning. [/quote]

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