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Child development Teacher Cecilia Jaggard Receives Grant

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The Blue Valley Education Foundation presented Child Development teacher, Cecilia Jaggard with a grant for $2500 for an upgrade to the dolls that are utilized in the Baby Think It Over project.

Kevin Timmons said that the grant was well written and specific. The grant targeted an area that is important for families that are growing in the Overland Park area.
Jaggard said she was elated to receive the grant from the Blue Valley Educational Fund. She said with the grant she was given, Jaggard will be buying new technology to help her students understand the partnership that it takes to raise a child.
“My vision is to have kids partner so they can share the responsibility of taking care of this child,” Jaggard said. “Basically my child development student would kind of be responsible for it, and would be selecting someone to parent with. Depending on who you pick, we will determine how they do. But Whatever they do or don’t do comes off on your grade.”
The students will think about what it takes to be a mom or dad and if they are ready for the commitment, Jaggard said. She said she wants people to think about what it takes to be a good parent and to see those qualities in others.
“I was just trying to find some way to help our marriage rate be better instead of fifty to eighty percent,” Jaggard said. “Just trying to make people think before they make these life-long decisions. Maybe wait a little longer. Trying to make people be a little more conscious of the decisions they make now and in their early twenties that are going to impact them, and if they want to have children, their children for the rest of their lives.”

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Child development Teacher Cecilia Jaggard Receives Grant