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Circus children on Ringling train lack formal schooling
A Cedar Rapids Gazette report portrays Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus children living on trains with minimal schooling. Most kids attend no high school, with only half hour tutoring for some first graders. The Ramos family sustains them while grandfathers supervise improvised lessons and dream of education beyond the show.
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Cedar Rapids
Allen Bloom
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Debbie Linde
Linde
Bloom
United States of America
Hector Ramos
Oswaldo
Rigoberto
Hector
Macarena Ramos
Nadia
Edgar
Ringling Brothers
Macarena
Rodogell
Peggy Williams
Federal
Department of Education
Richard Bove
State Department of Education
New York
New York City Board of Education Board
Bob Terte
Terre