Students need stability to learn. Here’s what Arkansas can do.

By: Chancy Ware

Outlets: Arkansas Advocate

Published: January 28, 2026

Words: 776

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 6 days ago

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On an ordinary school morning at my alma mater Mineral Springs High School, where I now teach, I walked the same green-and-gold hallways I knew as a teenager.

They felt different. Not louder or quieter. Just heavier. The kind of weight you feel in the way students move through the building, in how they sit in class, in what they carry quietly with them.

I saw it in one sophomore in my family consumer …

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