As part of the district’s response to the discovery of the student’s list this school year, school administrators, mental-health professionals, and staff met to evaluate the situation fully and determine appropriate next steps, Mayberry wrote in his post.
“Why I got into kinship care and meeting grandparents raising kids is that my home was really a broken home,” Wallace says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “My father was an alcoholic, worked on the waterfront. He was a good person but, when he drank, it was a nightmare …. We grew up in a state of toxic stress.”
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