BACK TO SCHOOL WITH SELF-CONTROL

77% of students are bullied physically, verbally and mentally. (ABC News) Pre-K students are expelled at more than 3 times the rate of K-12 students. (Yale University Study Center) Every 9 seconds in America a student becomes a dropout. (American Youth Policy Forum) This is a crisis and an epidemic. What can educators, parents, guardians and children do? Jon Oliver, author and founder of Lesson One: The ABCs of Life, provides a remedy to alleviate this dangerous epidemic. “All children must learn empathy, self-control and stress reduction, just as they learn reading and math,”