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Sixth Grader Protests School’s Slashed Library Time

December 20, 2024
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12.20.24 – Sixth grade student Rainier Long is an avid reader. When his school, Carlos Gilbert Elementary in Santa Fe, cut library time to make room for a technology class, Rainier organized a series of escalating protests. Rainier tells Our Land’s Laura Paskus why he believes time spent in a school library is just as…

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Indian Boarding Schools; Sit-in for Reading

December 20, 2024
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This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with two New Mexicans about their thoughts and emotions after President Joe Biden’s formal apology for the harm caused by Indian boarding schools.   Sixth grade student Rainier Long is an avid reader. When his school, Carlos Gilbert Elementary in Santa Fe, cut library time…

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