Brooklyn kids teach parents importance of voting
New American Academy hosts curriculum celebration
At the New American Academy Charter School, the kids are teaching their parents a few things.
Students at the Canarsie school are happily helping their guardians develop a variety of useful skills, like how to prepare a meal with healthy ingredients and how to register to vote.
And the role reversal has the blessing of Headmaster is Lisa Parquette Silva. “We have small group instruction here. The parents are involved,” she told the Brooklyn Eagle.