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Parents, students and teachers urge board to keep McDonough STEM coach and extension teacher
Summary
Dozens of parents, students and staff asked the board to reverse proposed cuts to McDonough School’s STEM coach and STEM extension teacher, saying hands-on, project-based learning and TAG enrichment would be curtailed without them.
Dozens of speakers at the June 17 Middletown Board of Education meeting urged the district to keep McDonough Elementary School’s STEM coach and STEM extension teacher after the administration included those positions in a list of potential reductions.
Parents and students described small-group, project-based instruction, invention fairs, robotics and STEM extension activities that they said have improved critical thinking and engagement. “This program made my older son, who was previously extremely bored with school, actually enjoy school and want to go every day,” parent Becky Fiquero said during public comment.
Several current and former McDonough staff described the…
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