children successfully graduate. i've been fortunate to have a mentor my entire life that taught me what i was doing. i can tell you i do what i do because someone gave to me and i believe it's time for me to give back. my employers will tell you i am the heart of the sentencing i love my children, families and i do love my teachers too. you'll hear me in the halls saying children before chores first, if i see a messy classroom, i know the children came first, it warms my heart, and basically that's who i am. i mean, and that's why i'm running for this seat. >> thank you, and i really appreciate your work, especially no expel policy which is really significant, especially with the population you work with, that probably has on the island may not have places to go close by, so i think that's really important. there are a lot of applicant and is we're short on time so we're going to go on to the next one, i do appreciate you coming here and getting out of your comfort zone and come and speak before us. thank you. >> th

two years ago kristin brought her children here to enter into a study of high risk children. >> children in that constellation have a 50% chance of developing autism themselves. that is highest risk group we know. he was in the highest risk group and he showed early signs. >> professor sally rogers evaluated noaaie when he was nine months old detecting the telltale signs not responding to his names. >> noah, noah, noah. >> not mirroring her gestures. >> can you do that? did you do that? >> reporter: but here's where things take a turn. rogers was also embarking on a groundbreaking study to see whether intensive intervention with high risk babies might help. >> giving him the model instead of just taking it. >> so she started training osmall group of parents. >> we were not talking with parents about spending hours of therapy with their children. we were talking about some focused interactive techniques that really would feel pretty natural oanyone doing these i think. >> reporter: except what's natural for autistic babies is not to respond. >> they taught me how to use the songs to engag

>> the children. the children. >> no nonsense new york city police commissioner william bratton >> they just respected this department >> restoring trust... >> it's going to be difficult... >> modernizing the force... >> this is going to be a revolutionary year >> protecting lives... >> the technologies we have available to us are phenomenal >> every sunday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. only on al jazeera america. >> this is al jazeera. >> very good to have you along. i'm david foster. you're watching the al jazeera news hour live from london. coming up weapons from the saudi-led coalition fighting houthi rebels in yemen. [ baby crying ] >>> saudi diplomats say that everything possible is being done to help civilians trapped by the fighting. >>> a number of suspects appeared in court

the children were on their way to oregon. from a war ravaged country where food was scarce, many of the children suffered from malnutrition. others were sick. one child clutched a dog tucked into his sap -- satchel. none of them knew where they were going. it's not clear how many of the children brought to the u.s. as orphans had parents who hoped to join them later. but on this april 23rd flight, 45 of the children were placed with relatives in the united states. >>> in all, some 2,500 children were brought from vietnam to the u.s. in just over a month. about half of those children passed through the presidio when they first arrived in the united states. president gerald ford met the first plane when it arrived in san francisco on april 2nd. a group of children were ready to move on to southern california. >> reporter: a makeshift nursery in the maintenance shop at the presidio was for a heckic 24 hours the first home for the 58 vietnamese orphans. doctors and nurses attended to their medical needs. by mid-afternoon 34 orpha

we mustn't let it happen, it's stupid strategically, because these children are the children that will decide what the future of our world will be. so we keep trying. on a personal note i wake up in the morning read the headlines i see no progress. you know there'll, with climate change, be more natural disasters also. and i say to myself - we are going to go through another day of not able to do everything we can for the children. i start to get discouraged. then i remember, and what we tell each other in u.n.i.c.e.f. and to others - even if we can't do 100% of what we need to do, and that means children unnecessarily dying and futures being blighted. there's a huge difference between doing 90% of what we need to do and 80% of what we need to do, because the 10% difference is millions of kids' lives. so let's get as close to 100% as we can. and if it's 90%, if we know we did our best, then... that's our best. >>> your campaign - instead of focussing on the children who have died or are dying, you try to send a hopeful message. >> well, you see children everywhere who have not given up

adopt children, don't have children, all over the place. but there is one group of people whom they won't open marriage to. so they have no possibility to participate in that fundamental liberty. that is people of the same sex who wish to marry. and so we ask, why? and the answer we get is, well people have always done it. you know, you could have answered that one the same way we talk about racial segregation. or two, because certain religious groups do think it's a sin, and i believe they sincerely think it. there's no question about their sincerity, but is a purely religious reason on the part of some people sufficient? and then when i look for reasons three, four and five, i don't find them. what are they? so therefore, i'm asking there i put a long question, but it gives you an opening to say what all of those reasons are. mr. bursch: justice breyer those answers one and two are not our answers. justice breyer: good. mr. bursch: our answer number one is that the marriage institution did not develop to deny dignity or to give second-cla

>> the children. the children. >> no nonsense new york city police commissioner william bratton >> they just respected this department >> restoring trust... >> it's going to be difficult... >> modernizing the force... >> this is going to be a revolutionary year >> protecting lives... >> the technologies we have available to us are phenomenal >> every sunday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. only on al jazeera america. > >>> saudi-led air strikes continue to target houthi fighters and much-needed aid arrives in yemen >>> we'll be speaking to the red cross in a moment. hello, you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters. [ gunfire ] >>> anger and frustration at a polling station in nigeria, as people gather to vote in faith elections. a new chapter

0-3 while we continue to support preschool children and their families. we stand committed to the professional development of the early care providers and educators, a majority of whom are women working full time to care for and educate young children at one of the lowest levels of compensation. i ask that you please consider my reappointment to the first five commission, know that i will work together with city departments, the school district, community based organizations to make certain that services offered to all young children and their families will serve as a model in this city, the state and the nation. thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for your service already on the commission and all the work you've done over the years as well. it's a great testament to the interest of advancing young children. >> thank you. do you have any questions for me? >> i don't think we have any questions. thank you. okay. this item, we can open up for public commenting any member of the public who would like to comment, please come forward. we have ms. lau

is there address parents with children that want to speak please come forward. >> good afternoon. i'm david and this is mabel. >> has better to be safe than sorry been said we're parent we don't oppose the building in any way but definitely prefer that whatever agreements er78d has put into the contract be a little bit more enforcing my understanding they're saying we would like to do this and frankly their throwing a lot of money but i'd like to see that more binding and i was actually looking at this i feel like it is very nice to see things a little bit easier this is about the length or the width of how much spates there is going to be between that wall and the kids that's about it right there and there's going to be 0 a lot of concrete and as with any building situation people sometimes things happen and things get a little bit 4r0urd and harder to manage to give our parents some legal protection so the developers are going to do, in fact, the things they say they're to do i appreciate that i do. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi good afternoon i'm a san francisco parent and

we can do what we can do for our children, but it is not all on our children.t is the other people. when i grew up i was " one of those children" who walked five miles to school every day from one side of town to the other. no one ever approached me. i know it is a different time, but i am concerned that people got to let kids be kids. that is how i feel about it. host: best in hartford, connecticut, calling in support of free-range parenting. next is steve from new jersey. you're not sure about this idea, right? caller: yes. host: why not? caller: my parents were not only not very involved, but they almost forced me into situations that were not such a great idea for kids. they would encourage me to walk in the middle of a frozen ice pond. they would let me swim in a lake that they knew was filled with snakes. and whatever else is in lakes. when i would play outside, they wait say things like try not to get kidnapped or -- they used to do some things to test me, i think -- host: you think they did this on purpose? caller: exactly. in my neighborhood, they used

i mean, just in last year, 2014, we saw over 68,000 unaccompanied children, migrant children, come to this country. and you know, we see children come for various reasons, escaping poverty, but in the last few years we have really seen children come fleeing for their lives. we have a huge increase of violence in their home countries, like william mentioned, the maras which are a gang, organized crime, organized gangs in central america. and so these kids are literally fleeing for their lives, and that's why it's so important that our community responds to this need. damian: he wants to be a judge. what are his chances? magdalena: he has amazing chances. i mean, he's a great student. he has straight as in school and, you know, i have no doubt in my mind that whatever he puts his mind to, he's going to achieve. damian: [speaking spanish] now, you just had a fundraiser just recently because, obviously, this isn't for you. but talk about the need and how the folks can help. magdalena: right. so, you know, right now, there is a huge need for legal services for these kids, and we are respon

children don't have children, all over the place. but there is one group of people who they won't open marriage to. so they have no possibility to participate in that fundamental liberty. that is people of the same sex who wish to marry. so we ask why. and the answer we get is, well people have always done it. you know, you could have answered that one. the same way we talk about racial segregation. or two. because certain religious groups do think it is a sin. and i believe they sincerely think it. there is no question about their sincerity. but as a purely religious reason on the part of some people sufficient? and then when i look for reasons three, four and five, i don't find them. what are they? so therefore, i'm asking -- there i put a long question, but it gives you an opening to say what all those reasons are. >> justice breyer, those answers, one and two, are not our answers. our answer number one is that the marriage institution did not develop to deny dignity or to give second-class status to anyone. it developed to serve

children's counsel helps people understand their children's options, helps low-income families to pay for care, manages the city's subsidy allocation list, maintains [inaudible] and works closely with government funders and community based partners to build the supply of quality care. our work supporting child care providers is focused on the 700 family child care home ins the city. we provide -- our staff helped child care providers establish their businesses, we provide basic and ongoing training in child development, health and safety, business management and other topics and provide coaching and technical assistance and the city's quality network which is designed to design quality options for low-income children. in my four years at children's council, i have become a strong advocate for public investment in child care and early education so all children will have the opportunity to succeed. i've developed deep knowledge of the system, the support for families and people carrying for and educating their children as well as the gaps. for the past three years, i've been ak timely i

these children. children are ukrainian citizens and that's why ukrainian state has taken those children to the safe ukrainian state. otherwise they will have no chance for education and for a good future. >> do any of those children though still have parents still have family in the eastern part of ukraine? >> some of them probably. but most of them are abandoned children and orphans. and some of them, some of those parents were left of parent annal care around that's why we say the children do not have their own future. but according to the program of desecularrization of fans, we hope those parents who have their new children, in the safe territory ever ukraine. >> how difficult would it be to reunite those families. >> yes definitely, it is a problem that children are only hostages. that is the problem for all ukrainian. to reunite families, to make it possible for children not to be hostages of this situation. >> just how trauma traumatized are these children? >> sorry could you repeat? >> i was

detention of children. the agreement said juveniles should be held in the least restrengthive setting aappropriate to their age and special needs. and generally in a nonsecure facility licensed to care for dependent minors. and it said that detaining children in prison-like facilities that are both secure and unlicensed runs contrary to the very heart of the flores agreement. in fact as we speak, flores class counsel petitioned the court to reinforce the agreement in light of the expansion on family detention. director saldana, given the concern regarding the mental and physical health effects on children in prolonged detention, i urge you to adopt a family detention policy that minimizes the lengthy detention of children. and use more humane alternatives like alternatives to detention. i also want to say that my staff alended a live bond proceeding for a mother and her 5-year-old child who had been sexually assaulted. the child was suffering from severe psychological distress while being detained at artesi

its one of the few parks in san jose where able-bodied children and handicapped children can play sidey side." aimee and chloe are identical twins. aimee and chloe are identical twins. but aimee was born with cerebral palsy and had massive brain damage. it was less of an issue when they were younger, but the difference in their needs quickly became apparent. "we would take them to the park when they were small, and we could only put chloe in the playground, and one of us had to sit outside on a bench with aimee, because the tanbark and the equipment, nothing was accessible." the playgarden is equipped with rubberized floors, accessible swings and a jungle of other accessible play things. for parents like emily mcqueen the playgarden serves as a unique pccce where she can interact with her children. "we like coming to parks that are accessible because i can play with the kids and be free to go everywhere that they can go, and keep them safe if they need to be, and have fun with them. and honestly the imaginative play that can happen here because i can actually go to all of the places th

. >>> a mother's quest to get her children back from the barricades of the fdls. this crowd keeping her from her own young ones even after she finally got custody. how they exert so much control of this corner of america. >>> and welcome to the oval office madam president. meet julia >> i'm back! >>> but first, the "nightline" five. >>> the average american visits about seven different websites before booking a hotel. i totally get that. we want to be sure we get a great hotel for a great price. next time before you book check on trivago. they compare live prices from more than 150 different websites to make sure you find the best price for your ideal hotel. hotel -- >>> good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight, in a disturbing and dwrafic video obtained by abc news, a police officer shoots an unarmed man repeatedly as the man tries to flee. now the officer has been charged with murder. abc's steve osunsami is on the ground in south carolina where the video will almost certainly be a key piece of evidence in this case. >> reporter: this chilling video, obta

they used obscene words they didn't care that we were children. when we said we are not going they said, just try staying. and we will shoot you and your teacher. >> reporter: whatever happened these children became pawns in a political playoff. the ukrainian government making the first move. >> threatening children is not acceptable in any situation by any side. it shouldn't have happened but these kids were threatened. >> and the donetsk break away republic trying to use an ace accusing ukrainian of stealing its children. >> translator: they're obliged according to their official responsibilities to return the children back here. this is a real crime and there will be a time when someone will face justice. >> the majorities of these children have been living in institutions like this most of their lives. now they find themselves in a tug of war between two sides of this conflict. many of them say they're confused some feel cut off from it all. and that's the sad reality these children are officially classified as orphans. many have been abandone

this is based on a family with school age children. if you rafamily with pree school age children that cost >> infant is about 100 thousand a year and preschoolers is like 90 thousand a year so parent with younger kids are squeezed more >> yes. one reason why ewhee chose to make sure we highlight this is to call out the squeeze that our middle income families experience in the city because of the cost of livering is very high we want to make sure that we number 1 understand the data and figure out new ways and policies and practs to insure we support our working families and that using fram poverty numbers isn't enough. we need to understand the context that these families live in >> i i'm glatd mu chel [inaudible] i guess we need to look for more funding and early care given the high cost for babies and infant and toddlers. as we look for a elder index as the baby boomers become senior boomers this same type of economics is helpful to look beyond the low poverty level for seniors for more of a elder index like insight does. as we try

department of children and family. broad group of community members to create the initial structure for this council. the council will not only create a strategic plan but also be tasked with coordinating services to maximize support for children, youth, and families in san francisco development and accessible transit. we have so much to lose when families leave the city. families of all backgrounds add to the city's unique character welcome culture, diversity and vibrancy. so we need to act now to help shape the future generations of our city. i am proud that our mayor and superintendent are committed to this long-term vision and are ready to lead this council. i will also wanted to thank supervisor avalos, kim, christenen camp pos and mar for cosponsoring this legislation. i also want to thank my legislative aid jen lo who is always working tirelessly on this legislation. i want to thank the staff at the mayor's office. san francisco unified school district children's funding coalition and our children -- our city st

children. when you change the definition of marriage to delink the idea we are bonding children with their biological mom and dad there is consequences >> we don't do that. that is the problem. marriage it will harm marriage between a man and woman if you allow men or two women to marry. i thought the burden was to show the state's reason for this institution is a reason that has nothing to do it is not applicable to same-sex couples. >> justice scalia you are right. i want to answer your question. >> i don't think that is right. i think before something that is as fundamental to a society as marriage is before an exclusion can be made in that institution the state needs a reason for that exclusion. i am giving you a real opportunity to tell you what that reason is what is the reason for the exclusion instead of non-inclusion. >> it is definition to solve a problem but the reason there is harm if you change the definition is because in people's mind if marriage and creating children don't have

the government doesn't own your children. parents on your children. no matter how you were growing up, your parent know you. they had some responsibility and if they neglect the ability by letting you die needlessly or suffer needlessly, they may lose you. i think that is fair. the legal term is father of the country. the state does have a right to step in if they think children are being treated horribly. right now there are two major faith healing choice is in the defect you know. those children won't be treated with antibiotics. we know that. we wait and wait for something horrible to happen and then with analyzed that they are just the tip of a much bigger iceberg. >> another question in the middle. >> so as a health care provider focused on a reduction on your first out in the conversation what is the most productive way to go about dealing with people and a strongly held belief? >> nothing. that is why as a legislative fix. but read this one recently did this she went to oregon and she change the law. it has something called the followers of chr

and what is the relationship with your older children with the children that you and vili have?ere very involved in our home. they had rooms. >> reporter: really? >> and all of our holidays were always together. and they're very close with their sisters, our girls. and they just consider themselves one big family. >> reporter: what do they call you? >> vili. >> reporter: they don't call you pop? >> no. i mean, for me, it was awkward. it's an awkward feeling for sure, you know, to be close in age with someone technically your stepson or stepdaughter. >> reporter: understandably awkward. remember, vili is only a year and a half older than mary's eldest son. do you have a good relationship with -- >> with mary's four other children? i don't really know. i don't know if it's good or bad. it was kind of just, you know, they did their own thing, i did mine. never really got too personal. >> reporter: but when it comes to parenting, mary and vili say, like many couples, they don't always see eye-to-eye. yes? what do you fight about? >> dumbest things. sometimes, well, if the girls will

do the parents have the children back tonight? exhausted children are headed home to silver spring along with their traumatized parents. here's the sequence of events that unfolded today. 10-year-old rafi and his 6-year- old sister devore were playing on their own at a local park without an adult. their parents dropped them off at 4 p.m., told them be home by 6 p.m. when they didn't arrive by 6:30, the parents began frantically searching for them. it wasn't until well after 8 p.m. that the meitevs received a call from cps saying their children had been taken into custody. the parents rushed into rockville and waited until 10:30 tonight before they were able to be reunited with their children. >> i can't believe we're going through this again. i can't believe they kept the kids for hours. it's 10:30 at night. they've been missing for, you know, since 6:00. somebody called 911. the police called cps and they decided to bring the kids here and they didn't call us. >> when we asked why did they not bring them home and they just said w

we are also the caretakers of our children's education and they can't fire us. [applause] >> next up dr. diane ravitch. [applause] >> thank you. i'm thrilled to be here to celebrate jesse's book in the book that so many people contribute it to but i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the presence of mayor de blasio and his wife sure lane. [applause] i also can't help but say a year before the mayoral election started one of the newspapers was doing a round up and said what do you think the next mayor should do an education my proposal was the next mayor should declare a three-year moratorium on standardized testing. [applause] i think it's important to understand that we are in an unprecedented time in american history. we have never had the federal government up until no child left behind passed in 2001 tell the whole country have the u.s. department of education take control and say when and how children can be tested and then to punish schools and teachers who didn't measure up to what the federal government thought was appropriate. no child left behind

as long as our children are out there, our children need to know that we look for them. >> in april of last year boko haram fighters attacked a school in the northern borno state and kidnapped more than 200 girls. the family said that every girl taken wanted to achieve something in life. that's why they went to school even though boko haram leaders for bid western education. the attack led to a global twitter campaign to free the girls with the hashtag #bring back our girls around the world. president buhari will be sworn in as president in may. some hope that his administration will do more to find the girls. others are skeptical. >> there are many in that support this effort. >> a year is a long time. slowly reality is sinking in for some families. even if some of the girls are found alive parents don't know what condition they will be. how many are pregnant or who have children or how many of them are sick. president goodluck jonathan's outgoing administration kept tellling nigerians that the girls would be rescued soon. but for this father, brothers and sisters soon turned into wee

therefore the children and youth fund urges the mayor and board of supervisor tooz macmize children and youth resources to address unmet needs through grant program development,xpansion and improve. the resources should nolt be diverted to cover increase in minimum wage. the mayor made comment to address fiscal praesher [inaudible] while the children and yooth fund community youth [inaudible] supports the cost of doing business increase for dc [inaudible] the city should invest in the children to support strong agency doing quality work with young peopling in need. giving budget predictions of [inaudible] 1.5 million to support [inaudible] that will divert half tho2 million of the 4 million increase in the children fund next year. [inaudible] thank yous. next speaker, please >> good afternoon supervisors my name is johny swarts and the executive director of [inaudible] here to represent the tay [inaudible] is group of director representing non profit providers in san francisco. we envision a support system to have access to education, employment housing helt services they need it be suc

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story after story you have been standing up for children children and a time in the time when they were considered a relevant. the kingdom of heaven is theirs. there's another line which there is another line which was matthew 2540 which was i say to you inasmuch as you have done to the least of my brother and you've done unto me and i think that you could put that onto the entrance way and emblazoned on every children's hospital in the world and to be quite honest with you that the most upsetting to me at the time this was all happening in 1991 was no one stood up for those children and i think it would have been reasonable for the representatives in the church to stand up and say this is not us. this isn't a christian thing to do. it reminds me of that line when all of the majesty of the world and when all of the of that. we always wear the same lay in the hands of others they were small and couldn't hope for help and no hope came and that's the way that i felt. there is an unlikely hero in the book. i probably spent most of my time talking with her and i spent 15 hours on the phone w

at the end of the school year last year 200 children without homes. where are the alarm bells, every time we have a family that has lost their housing, the alarm bell should go off. we are doing permanent damage to these kids. and we are sitting by idly and 7% for families with kids i have been doing this job for 20 years and nothing pisses me off more, our sheer neglect and we are creating the situation and forcing children to go through this. we will put out a road map in the next couple of week, and we are sounding. all of us here i want you to stand by my side and sound those alarm bells with us sound them loud. we are looking forward over the next years and looking down the pipeline, we have housing, and not one unit not one unit for homeless households. that's what we are talking about. that's what elizabeth was referring to. this is a disaster. we have sky rocketing rents, and eviction crisis and low wages that are stagnant. we have a crisis here but we can solve it and know how to do it. stand by my side and ring those alarm bells, thank you.

is good enough for the children not enough to move the no evidence in filling in the gaps for the children of our school the model didn't work for sfaufld change it today not tomorrow change it now our kids deserve the best you've horde reservation and talk about how they're not perfect and knowing that we have to be bold to say no to strategies that don't work and not best for your kids and just to prove that is not an attack on our alternative credential programs look at the data that is presented in the last two weeks san francisco residency is retain over 80 percent have teachers this is not about the krenld programs this is not it my decision does not effect the current alumni this is not a attack on tfa we're not going to continue to port in san francisco a model it set up for teachers not to stay in the district we need the aggressive hiring institutions across the bay area and building pathways from within our own district heck i paid an application fee for the program state and so i'm committed to making sure that i play my role (clapping.) and then there's this idea of how many p

these children were both born boys.and 8, they are some of the youngest to be referred to an identity clinic run by the nhs. >> can you remember when you were treated as a boy, why you wanted to wear girl clothes? >> to just see how it looked and see if anyone laughed or not. and i would be happier then. >> reporter: more young children with feelings like this are being seen by nhs doctors. the number has been rising sharply as awareness grows. 77 children age 10 and under are referred to a gender identity clinic up from 19 six years ago. there might be some who think this child is 6, it's bound to be a phase. >> we thought that to start with. but, this has been going on since she first started talking. there's no point trying to force them to be somebody who they are not. >> reporter: research suggests many young people find the transition far from easy. levels of self-harm can be higher for transgender children. for parents as well it can be difficult. >> they feel foolish calling because they are reading too much int

their children also became sick and died.rd generation, some know about agent orange so they don't have children. >> reporter: but they want more people to know about the impact of dioxan. and expands early detection through technology like using ultrasound machines during pregnancy. some of the agent orange that rained down on the jungles was stored and loaded at the former u.s. military base in duh make. a so-called dioxan hotspot now the site of the commercial airport. the first american funded cleanup began three years ago a hugely complex process super heating the soil in a massive furnace think the americans still dispute the figure that three to 4 million vietnamese have been affected by the chemicals. >> what for vietnamese are the biggest concerns which is environment pollution couldn't is hitting this historical legacy in terms of dioxan there are other sources in vietnam. >> reporter: regardless of the source the current generation suffering are solely focused on survival. >> the thing is the goodwill of all people

commitment and love for their children and children they were educating, was very evident. the facility was wonderful the technology they had for these kids was incredible. i'm not sure i could operate some of the interactive items that they have. but that's an issue of great concern to us, ma'am, under that order that we're under with respect to family detention, we have reviewed all of those people that are members of that class. a number of those families have been released. you know, one of our problems is the immigration courts and trying to get a resolution and a decision based on credible fear or whatever there is to move on with respect to these families and have them know what's going to happen with them. that's a matter of -- i think the last number i saw was something like 480,000 backlogged cases in the immigration courts that are under the department of justice. i urge this committee to the extent there's anything you can do to help those courts to get more judges, that would help with our disposition and request for 2016 for more lawyers to assist us to get th

most indian children now go to school.ut some of the older ones have to balance their desire to learn with the need to support their families. most of the children come in the morning, but then in the afternoon go to work in small factories or even at home. they tell us if they don't do that, their family may not have enough money to buy food. at mid-day, it's lunchtime. the students are made to wash up before being served a simple but hot meal provided free by the government, it's one of the big reasons why parents send their children to school. the children are now back in the classroom, tucking into mare meal of lentils and rice. many of these children come from poor or modest backgrounds, so this is possibly the only proper meal they'll have all day. and it's one of the reasons they like coming to school. it's the cornerstone of one of the most ambitious free school lunch programs anywhere in the world, because at this very moment, 120 million school lunches are being served up across india. but while primary school en

put up posters -- the meitev children put up posters on the gate keeping reporters away since police picked them up for the second time walking home alone. >> after sitting in the car 2 1/2 hours he said i'm going to bring you home. instead he brang us here. >> reporter: late that night child protective services forced the parents to sign an order saying they would not let their children walk around without adult supervision. >> i'm not going to risk my kids being snatched again like this from cps. >> reporter: now their lawyer said he will sue montgomery county to force it to soften that order and allow the parents to raise their children as they see fit. >> we want our children to grow up independently, feel safe and confident walking around the neighborhood and the meitevs can't accomplish that by hovering over them and keeping them in their watchful eye 24/7. >> reporter: police say they were simply responding to a 911 call about suspected child neglect and the officer said that when he arrived here, he saw a homeless man eyeing the children, but there are several montgomery coun