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  • Garden City Elementary School
  • Roanoke, VA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Most of my sweet students are raised in poverty. They are faced with many daily challenges that affluent children never have to deal with. This creates a disadvantage to their academic and social success. Most of my students do not have safe, predictable and/or stable home lives. School is their safe haven. In my classroom they receive consistent , unconditional love, guidance, snacks and much needed emotional support. It is my mission to provide them with a rigorous, balanced, and positive learning environment.

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Most of my sweet students are raised in poverty. They are faced with many daily challenges that affluent children never have to deal with. This creates a disadvantage to their academic and social success. Most of my students do not have safe, predictable and/or stable home lives. School is their safe haven. In my classroom they receive consistent , unconditional love, guidance, snacks and much needed emotional support. It is my mission to provide them with a rigorous, balanced, and positive learning environment.

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