LAS VEGAS — April is Month of the Military Child and Mountain View Lutheran School wants to recognize the challenges children of our military face and offer support as a designated Purple Star School.
Month of the Military Child is a Defense Department commemoration established in 1986 by former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The Defense Education Activity Department joins the Defense Department and the military community in the celebration.
During April, the Defense Education Activity Department will encourage schools to honor military children with special events and have school leaders incorporate the month’s themes into everyday duties. Activities will stress the importance of giving military children the services and support they need to thrive in the mobile military lifestyle.
Kids who change schools frequently can experience gaps or overlaps in coursework and differing graduation requirements and disruption in their networks of friends and mentors. This can lead to emotional struggles.
Mountain View Lutheran School helps to close the gap as a Purple Star School and is one of just seven schools in Nevada to receive the designation from the Nevada Department of Education. The award honors Mountain View Lutheran for going the extra mile to assist military children and parents in ways that respond to their unique academic and social/emotional well-being.
“Military children are often forgotten when it comes to providing support services,” said Mountain View Lutheran School Principal Kris Schneider. “We want to recognize the challenges they face and connect them with educational and emotional support services.”
The Defense Department estimates there are 1.6 million military children ages 6 to 17 (977,191 active-duty, 674,223 Reserve) in the United States). All experience the unique challenges of military life.
Mountain View Lutheran assists the children of active-duty, reserve duty, and veteran parents.
About Mountain View Lutheran School
Mountain View Lutheran’s elementary school features co-curriculars including instruction in the visual and performing arts and computer/library for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, and sign language instruction for third to fifth grade students.
Core-subject teaching lets students learn widely and advance quickly. In math, for example, fifth-graders can enter accelerated learning in the second semester and regularly qualify for prealgebra for the sixth grade. Social studies lessons start local and widen. Fourth-graders study Nevada history; fifth-graders focus on American history.
Mountain View Lutheran School also offers a full-time Silver State four-star preschool for children ages 2 to 5. It has openings for children starting at age 2, as well as full-day and half-day preschool for 3-year-old and up. For enrollment information or to view a virtual tour or schedule an in-person tour, visit mvlcs.org/school or mvlcs.org/preschool for information.
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