The World Food Program repairs classrooms and feeds nearly half of the town's 220,000 people.
Extending any shift system would mean changing academic timetables or even using classrooms to feed pupils.
Increasing the use of technology in the classroom is like feeding our kids pop tarts and soda; it tastes good and they like it, but it doesn't offer the nourishment they need.
UNICEF is working with the government and partners, including the World Food Programme, to provide emergency school feeding, construct classrooms for displaced children and expand school capacity in host communities, among other interventions.
Although some supplies were allowed in during March, much of the needed aid – including cash to fund and supply the UN mission's in-school feeding programme, prefabricated classrooms, teacher-training materials and early childhood development kits – is still being held up.
This discrimination and fear bleeds over into basic classroom interactions and feeds our reluctance to challenge exclusionary curricula.
And at Webster Elementary School in Michigan, special education teacher Sharon Turbiak has been dismissed for allegedly "slapping, grabbing and force feeding special-needs preschoolers in her classroom, among other unprofessional classroom management practices".
While schools are not considered ideal feeding spots for the nocturnal parasites, classrooms could be serving as a transportation hub to and from homes, further fanning a citywide resurgence of the pests, experts say.
Teacher training at intervention schools will be conducted for both programs prior to classroom implementation addressing program materials, concepts, and child feeding and activity topics.
Mine was feeding on the lawn outside my 4th grade classroom.
