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Monday, January 20, 2014

A WHALE OF AN ISSUE AT BREED


"Each year [Nancy] Mades-Byrd requires her eighth grade students to choose a side on a given issue, research and write a paper to support it. In the past topics have been mundane issues, but when Mades-Byrd stumbled across an article “The Killer in the Pool,” from Outside magazine, she thought she’d found a topic her students would really like.

“They had some very strong opinions, some were very passionate,” she said. “We had some real debates.”

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