Chairs made for older and bigger students are being used in middle and elementary schools to comfortably fit overweight and obese students.

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I'd love to see more career days, where professionals come in--not just to high schools but to middle schools and to elementary schools--and talk about the various careers that are out there.

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Not even high schools, just elementary and middle schools.

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Only 1 in 3 children is active on a daily basis and only 4% of elementary schools, 8% of middle schools and 2% of high schools offer daily P.

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Before March 11, Namie's school system had 1, 710 children in its elementary and middle schools.

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There are 32 elected school boards, which have primary responsibility for elementary and middle schools.

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The school operates within five school buildings: three elementary schools, a middle school and high school.

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Once a rare break from restrictive rules governing the behaviour of rural young women who were not allowed to sing aloud or go out at night, except during the Chuseok Thanksgiving celebration, the ritual is mostly preserved today by middle-aged women in cities and taught as part of the music curriculum of elementary schools.

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But my goal is to challenge more schools and more communities to take part in this, particularly middle and high school students, because right now those 635 students are at the elementary school level, and we need to take this challenge up to kids in middle schools and high schools.

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