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What if you do not have an opportunity to go to school, are you only a half-charged human?

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I've been meeting with parents and I've been asking parents to do their parts, because it doesn't matter what we feed you at school, but if you get home and it's hard for parents to make healthy choices, then you guys still aren't leading healthy lives, so we've asked parents to step up and do more.

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Having attended an online school, you know that schools do not need walls because there are no limits to what you can accomplish.

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College Savings If your kid comes home from school with a brochure touting the state-sponsored tuition savings program, what should you do?

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No matter what is going on in your lives, you have to go to school and you have to do your homework every day -- every day.

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