EDUCATION A Veterans’ Day to be proud...

EDUCATION

A Veterans’ Day

to be proud of

Newport Elementary School students and hundreds of local residents

celebrated “Proud to be an American Day” Monday as a prelude to

Veteran’s Day.

Military personnel and veterans, Boy and Girl scouts, as well as

other children took part in the program, which featured patriotic

songs and lessons in flag etiquette on the school’s beach-front

playground. The tall ship Lynx fired its cannons just off the coast

to finish and end the assembly.

* Most of the 14 special education students kept home from Corona

del Mar High School earlier this month to protest classroom

conditions stayed home last week again.

Parents have complained that the room is understaffed, infested

with rats and cockroaches and that children’s educational plans are

not being followed. District representatives met with parents twice

this week and said that the room will have two new aides and that

pest control measures are being taken.

* MARISA O’NEIL covers education and may be reached at (949)

574-4268 or by e-mail at marisa.oneil@latimes.com.