A whole first-grade class goes to a classmate's adoption day
Olpe first graders rode to court with a classmate who asked for his whole class to be there when the adoption became official.
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A first grader in Olpe wanted his whole class at his adoption, and the school said yes. KWCH reported that the first graders of Southern Lyon County USD 252 took a field trip to the day the adoption became official. His mother said he had insisted they be there.
The class went as guests, not as a lesson with a worksheet. He got to see the same kids he sits beside at school while the court made his family official. The district is small enough that a field trip can be a room full of six-year-olds showing up for one of their own.
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A first grader in Olpe, Kansas, was going to be adopted, and he wanted his whole class there. His mother said he insisted. The first graders at Southern Lyon County's school took a field trip to his adoption day. They went to cheer for a friend, not to see a museum. He got to look out and see the people he sits with at school.
- Why would a child want classmates at an adoption, not only family?
- How is this field trip different from a trip to a park or a museum?
- What could a class do later to keep celebrating that friend?
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