Education
Nov. 15, 2007
Lawyers Lend a Hand: Helping Kids Deal With Violence
A team of attorneys, in partnership with UCSF, has been raising money to pay for a therapist to work with students at George Washington Carver Elementary School, helping them process their exposure to violence, and find healthy ways to deal with it.
By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - It's a scene too familiar at George Washington Carver Elementary School in the city's troubled Bayview neighborhood: a bright young kid tuning out in the classroom, rattled by violence.
Emily Wade-Thompson, the school's principal, cites a recent, heartbreaking example of an 8- or 9-year-old student who became withdrawn be...
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - It's a scene too familiar at George Washington Carver Elementary School in the city's troubled Bayview neighborhood: a bright young kid tuning out in the classroom, rattled by violence.
Emily Wade-Thompson, the school's principal, cites a recent, heartbreaking example of an 8- or 9-year-old student who became withdrawn be...
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