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Learning for Life: Play and learn time for migrant families

by KING 5 News

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Posted on September 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM

Families that follow the crops and move every few months travel only with what's absolutely necessary and that means few - if any - books and toys for their children.
 
But a program at the Monitor Migrant Camp near Wenatchee is showing families how to have fun with what they do have - pots, pans, purses, hats, shoes. It's also helping parents, as well as older siblings, understand the importance of taking time to read and play with younger children.
 
The Kaleidoscope Play & Learn at the Monitor Migrant Camp is funded through a grant by the Washington Apple Education Foundation, a group of growers who like the program because it gives families information and skills they can keep using when they leave.
 
This week on Learning for Life we travel east of the mountains to learn more about the Kaleidoscope Play & Learn at the Monitor Migrant Camp.
Learning for Life airs every Wednesday on KING 5 Morning News on KONG 6/16 TV between 8:15 and 8:30 a.m.
 

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captjp said on September 20, 2010 at 8:35 AM

Uderserf, Tacwilster and JPpubic--Very well said!! Not only should anyone who employs a illegal be fined but pay the expense to ship them back to their own country. And will someone please tell me what law says that a anchor baby is a legal US Citizen. That needs to stop right NOW!. HELL, If we deport the illegals that would mean that there may be a few openings in the White House.

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underserf said on September 19, 2010 at 4:43 PM

Um,mm... "Migrant"? Really? They eventually LEAVE then? Meantime, we get the cheapest possible price for fruits and vegetables BECAUSE of the "migrant" worker? When I tried working "migrant" as a young man 30 years ago, it was impossible to get on a crew, simply because I didn't speak enough Spanish. So the opportunities for American teens given to Wanderlust have improved since then? No? We're hiring families of - who exactly? Why families?

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jpublic said on September 16, 2010 at 8:14 AM

tacwilster; Agreed. We have been subsidising illegal migrant workers long enough. The orchard owners pay minimal wages and the taxpayer shells out food stamps, free education and medical care. The illegals have no respect for our laws and have been rewarded for it. Only children of legal permanant residence should be granted citizenship and therefore eligible for social services. Abusing our system shows the illegal immigrants will only take from our country and not add to our country. They have no reason to work to improve their own countries if they can break into our country and receive benefits for doing so. All who support giving these people and their children amnesty and/or benefits are directly responsible for the deaths at our border. Without a payoff, they wouldn't attempt the crossings. That is true cruelty and contradicts the "poor children" cry of the liberal.

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tacwilster said on September 15, 2010 at 10:10 AM

So we know where the illegals are, but our government just doesn't care to take of the situation. Don't want to hear that they are the only people that will work the orchards. All the state has to do is tell every one on welfare you want your check than you work for it picking apples, cherries or what ever. Simple! Two birds with one stone.

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