You're spot on with the reinforcement idea. For early elementary kids, maybe 10 min worth of work. Don't grade it. It's a practice activity, not a test.

Right?! I barely trust some of my colleagues to do their day job reliably let alone manage a firearm in a high pressure scenario.

Can confirm. My daughter loves to play co op with me or her friends.

As a teacher who has fed kids who otherwise would have gone hungry over the summer, I'm appalled.

As an Iowan, I have no idea what more to do. Voting certainly hasn't worked so far and reasonable arguments fall on deaf ears. Yes, I could move, but is it really any better anywhere else? I would feel like I was abandoning my family, my students, and community. It is important to show through action and compassion that there is more than just this kind of conservative nonsense in the world. Of course, she fast tracked giving our public education dollars to private schools with no change in accountability measures...

You get $300?! We get $150...