Migrant students hit the books, pool during summer program
WEST PARIS – A weeklong summer camp ended Friday for 19 students in SAD 17’s Migrant Student Program.
By the looks of the preteens on Friday, jumping and splashing in the Route 26 Mollyockett Motel pool, the daily swimming lessons taught by Sue Bradbury were the highlight of the week.
For some of the kids, this was their first experience jumping off a diving board, said the district’s migrant teacher, Sherry Grant. Throughout the year, she teaches around 90 children of migrant workers in all grades, with particular attention to helping them keep up with their reading skills.
Children qualify for the federally funded program if their parents have moved to the district within the last three years and are employed in the fishing, forestry or agriculture industries, she said.
Besides swim lessons, the children in this year’s camp will receive and read five books provided by the Reading Is Fundamental program. A $500 grant will provide additional RIF books this fall to the 90 children in the program.
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