The Hope Scholarship (Ep 28)
10/23/19 • 20 min
This is a topic that Rick and Keith are incredibly passionate about. It's The Hope Scholarship. We all want the best learning experience for our children, but what if they are being harassed or bullied? More than 50,000 students are subject to what we call bullying! Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, a student enrolled in a Florida public school in kindergarten through grade 12 who has been subjected to an incident of battery; harassment; hazing; bullying; kidnapping; physical attack; robbery; sexual offenses, harassment, assault, or battery; threat or intimidation; or fighting at school the opportunity to transfer to another public school with capacity or enroll in an approved private school under the Hope Scholarship. Find out what steps you need to take on today's episode.
Hector Manley sex abuse case, Collier schools' response angers parents
From the article:
Parents interviewed had little to no knowledge of the Manley case; a few had heard about it, and only from media coverage.
“It’s not right,” Raina Antonio-Jose said in Spanish as she walked her child home from school last spring. “They should have informed the parents so that we are aware of what is going on with our kids at the school.”
Antonio-Jose heard about Manley’s arrest on a Facebook post linking to an article about him.
“The school did not tell me anything,” Antonio-Jose said.
Parents at Parkside Elementary School say they feel in the dark because of the lack of communication from the school district about a sexual abuse case.
This is a topic that Rick and Keith are incredibly passionate about. It's The Hope Scholarship. We all want the best learning experience for our children, but what if they are being harassed or bullied? More than 50,000 students are subject to what we call bullying! Beginning with the 2018-2019 school year, a student enrolled in a Florida public school in kindergarten through grade 12 who has been subjected to an incident of battery; harassment; hazing; bullying; kidnapping; physical attack; robbery; sexual offenses, harassment, assault, or battery; threat or intimidation; or fighting at school the opportunity to transfer to another public school with capacity or enroll in an approved private school under the Hope Scholarship. Find out what steps you need to take on today's episode.
Hector Manley sex abuse case, Collier schools' response angers parents
From the article:
Parents interviewed had little to no knowledge of the Manley case; a few had heard about it, and only from media coverage.
“It’s not right,” Raina Antonio-Jose said in Spanish as she walked her child home from school last spring. “They should have informed the parents so that we are aware of what is going on with our kids at the school.”
Antonio-Jose heard about Manley’s arrest on a Facebook post linking to an article about him.
“The school did not tell me anything,” Antonio-Jose said.
Parents at Parkside Elementary School say they feel in the dark because of the lack of communication from the school district about a sexual abuse case.
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