![]() ![]() Chiachiere has helped vet and hire dozens of the district’s administrators, guiding his fellow trustees through the ins and outs of school district policy, and gauging the pulse of the latest developments in education. Over the following 30 years, he served another 12 times as trustee, and was board president in six of those terms. ![]() So he decided to run for a seat on the Valley Stream District 13 Board of Education in 1993, and won. “I wanted to make sure that there were a left-handed pair of scissors in the classroom,” Chiachiere said. He realized, thanks to that conversation, that the quality of a child’s education lies in the subtlest of details. “It’s a right-handed world, and I thought, what would happen to this poor child once he gets into kindergarten?” Chiachiere said. ![]() Most classroom materials, from scissors to computers to one-arm desks, are designed for right-handed students, and so put their left-handed peers, like his son, at a disadvantage. At first he didn’t know what to make of the question. They were the only hands in the air.Ĭhiachiere was later pulled aside and asked by the principal if he had tried to teach his left-handed son to do things with his right hand. When his son’s pre-K principal asked the crowd of parents if their children were left-handed, Frank Chiachiere and his wife, who were in the crowd, raised their hands. ![]()
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