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Weekly Media Roundup - March 7, 2013

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Weekly Media Roundup - March 7, 2013

“A group of six Swallow School Elementary students involved in an after-school program are attempting to give back to a group of senior citizens they say have given more than the students could return,” the Journal Sentinel reports. The students interviewed World War II veterans and Holocuast survivors about their experiences as part of a contest requiring students to think outside the box about community service. The project inspired students to help raise money for a local WWII memorial in Port Washington.
 
After teachers and administrators noticed an uptick in name-calling and general bullying, an afterschool program at San Houston Elementary School is teaching students about the negative effects of bullying and disrespect, and how to put a stop to both. Markesha Ford, area manager of the AlphaBEST afterschool program, told The Eagle, “I think the issue now is kids don't really recognize that they are bullying others or that they are being bullied. Instead of them coming in and listening to us talk about it and constantly reminding them, we wanted to add some games to it and make it educational, but have a good time.”
 
At the Expanded Learning Network of the Southern Tier’s legislative breakfast focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, afterschool students demonstrated vehicles they designed and built in their LEGO robotics program at Southside Community Center in Elmira. Fifth-grade student Ripley told the Star-Gazette, “It was fun to build a robot, but programming it was challenging. We had to use different formulas to create a program to make the robot move.”
 
Pobo Efekero, one of the stars of the award-winning documentary Brooklyn Castle, testified before a City Council hearing about the proposed cuts to afterschool funding in Mayor Bloomberg’s budget earlier this week. In discussing the cuts Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn) said, “Our communities will be worse off, our parents will be worse off, our children will be worse off, our schools will be worse off, and in the end the cost of every single one of those things is...greater than the cost of the after school program,” the Daily News reports.

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