Children are truly our future, which is why a Saint Mary’s club held an event last night to discuss the education of migrant children. The College club La Fuerza concluded its annual “Week of Action” Thursday with a discussion titled ‘Migrant Children and Their Education.’ Elizabeth Dennie, who recently completed her Master’s degree in Education Leadership at Saint May’s, led the discussion.  First-year student Fallon Brandis said she appreciated the chance to learn about migration from a new perspective. “I just think this is a really pertinent topic, especially in politics, and it’s so interesting to learn about the other side of migration,” Brandis said. Dennie told the group about her thesis for the Master’s program and her continued research titled ‘The Migrant Experience: Not Leaving Migrant Students Behind.’ She said she struggled to find information on this topic because there is relatively little available. Dennie shared several stories about her work with children and stressed the importance of dialogue between teachers, administrators and families to better the education of migrant children. She said the most important thing she learned in the process of obtaining her Master’s degree was to allow children to enjoy their youth.  “It sounds so stupid, but it’s so profound – kids are kids,” she said. “Let them be kids. If you look around society, everything is pushing kids to be older. They don’t know how to have fellowship.” Several education majors asked Dennie how to approach educating migrant students in their future careers. Dennie said it was important to develop relationships with the students in order to foster a love of learning that will bring with it academic success. Dennie also said it is important to see past possible ethnic differences when educating migrant children.  “A lot of times we let so much divide us when we are so similar,” Dennie said. read more

U.S. Open 2019: Justin Rose wary of Brooks Koepka lurking just behind Woodland’s lone true scare of the day came at the 8th hole (his 17th) where he put himself in bad position with his second shot off the right front of the green.But he got on with his third and made an extremely slippery putt down the hill to avoid dropping a shot. Related News U.S. Open 2019: Tiger Woods fuming after bogey-bogey finish Gary Woodland simply refuses to bogey. #USOpen pic.twitter.com/2ynID5Gtho— U.S. Open (USGA) (@usopengolf) June 15, 2019Woodland leads Justin Rose by two as he shot a 1-under 71 after tying the U.S. Open single-round record at Pebble Beach with a 65 in the first round.Woodland matched that score in his second round joining Rose and Tiger Woods (2000) as the only men to shoot 65 at Pebble Beach in a U.S. Open.Rose’s putting carried him to his superb first round, but his putter saved him from posting big numbers in Round 2 as he got up and down from several tough spots on the day.”You know you’re going to need to make those sort of key, 5, 6, 7, 8 foot putts for par, and invariably they have a lot of swing on them on this golf course,” Rose said after his round. “They are makeable. You feel like you should make them. But they’re kind of 50/50 putts. So when you make them you are keeping up the momentum and then you miss one you really feel like you’ve lost something. Even though they’re 50/50 putts the psychological gain from making them is like a whole shot.”Louis Oosthuizen is three shots back of Woodland in solo third at 6 under. Gary Woodland did everything he needed to Friday.He went bogey free while posting six birdies to shoot a 6-under 65 and take sole possession of the lead at 9 under through two rounds. Rory McIlroy was on his way to a fantastic day as he was 3 under through 11, but a bogey and double bogey on back-to-back holes forced him to salvage what could have been a much better round.He got it done though as he birdied two of the final four to finish with a 2-under 69 and four shots back of Woodland at 5 under for the tournament. Aaron Wise is tied with McIlroy at 5 under.Rory McIlroy shakes off double bogey, hits incredible shot from bunker, 🐦#USOpen pic.twitter.com/Ilqq2zqA68— U.S. Open (USGA) (@usopengolf) June 15, 2019Brooks Koepka sits five shots back of Woodland at 4 under and Tiger Woods is nine back at even par. read more

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Mitchell Hynes is the grandson of Shorty and Sandy Baker of Wellington and the son of Argonia High School graduate Shanda Hynes Martin. SUFFOLK, VA. — If dates had license plates, then March 30, 2016, would carry tags that read “First in Flight for Mitchell Hynes.”Wednesday was the day Mitchell, a Nansemond-Suffolk Academy sophomore, was able to take his first solo flight in a helicopter.“I’m pretty excited,” Mitchell said before taking flight. “I’m a little bit nervous as well, though.”Wednesday was his 16th birthday, and that marks the day trainees are able to take their first solo flight in an aircraft if they have already received the proper training.And if any 16-year-old ever was well trained for this mission, it was Mitchell.“I was pretty much born to be there,” he said.The Hynes family has been involved in aviation since Mitchell’s grandfather, Michael Hynes, first got bitten by the aviation bug as a small boy.“I was 5 years old when my dad bought me a $5 airplane ride for my birthday,” Michael Hynes said. “The guy let me hold the stick and said, ‘You should be a pilot.’”He joined the U.S. Air Force at 17 and spent four years on active duty. He later went on to found his own aviation company and was one of the first pilots of the Learjet in the 1960s.He fathered six children, five of whom were boys, and all of the boys got bitten by the bug as well. As a whole, the family has logged more than 80,000 hours of flight time, Michael Hynes said.Dave Hynes is the youngest of the six siblings and is Mitchell’s father. He spent 13 years in the Air Force and became co-owner of Hampton Roads Helicopters, which is based at the Hampton Roads Executive Airport off Route 58 in Chesapeake. The business buys and sells new and used aircraft, does maintenance, has a flight school and does charter work, and that’s the environment in which Mitchell has grown up.“I’ve been doing it since I was 10,” he said of flying with his dad. “It started with hopping in with my dad when he was going somewhere.”Despite Mitchell’s nerves, the morning went smoothly at Hampton Roads Executive Airport. Mitchell first took off with his dad, who’s also a pilot and instructor in addition to co-owning the business, with him. He flew a few flight patterns in the company of his dad to make sure he and the helicopter were feeling comfortable.Then, with his family gathered to watch from the edge of the tarmac, Mitchell set the chopper back down. His father exited, leaned down and stepped away from the spinning rotors. Mitchell lifted the helicopter up and set it back down — one, two, then three times — and then took off for good.“I knew this day was coming,” said his mother, Shanda Hynes, who admitted she’ll probably be more nervous when he starts driving a car — still legally three months down the road. “I’ve been dreading it for a while. Look how big he looks in there.”His parents listened to him communicating his movements over the radio. His grandparents, an uncle and other family members watched the chopper as it circled the airport a few times. He then set it back down where he started.“It was a lot lighter than usual,” Mitchell said of his first flight. “On the first pickup, I went to the right the first time, because there was no weight on the left.”After congratulatory hugs and handshakes, Dave Hynes wielded a pair of scissors to cut a rectangle out of the back of his son’s shirt to be put on display. It’s an old aviation tradition after a first solo flight.Later in the day, Mitchell took his first solo flight in an airplane.Mitchell can’t receive his Federal Aviation Administration license for another year. He’ll have to get more solo flight time under his belt and then pass an oral knowledge examination as well as practice different maneuvers with an instructor — his dad — along for the ride.Mitchell said he is definitely looking at a career in aviation, preferably as a pilot of some sort.Follow us on Twitter. read more