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Fairfax County sixth graders tutor first graders in peer mentoring program

A sixth grader at Cunningham Park Elementary School in Virginia created a peer mentoring program called “Cardinals Care for Cardinals” where sixth graders can mentor their younger peers in first grade. Mews4’s Molette Green reports. 

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