San Francisco pediatrist Priscilla Chan conceive that a good Education Department should advance both healthy idea and bodies . The Harvard grad and married woman of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be opening a non - profit school in East Palo Alto , California this gloaming which will not only provide barren education for educatee , but costless health care for families .
CNNreports thatThe Primary Schoolwill enroll children as youthful as three and bring home the bacon free physical and mental health services to both pupil and their parent . The school has also announce a partnership with East Palo Alto ’s Ravenswood Family Health Center , and has begun the enrolment process for full - time educatee .
In a rare interview , Chan toldThe San Jose Mercury Newsthat she was inspired to embark on The Primary School by her days mentoring tiddler in low income neck of the woods . As a college scholar , Chan volunteered at the Harvard - persist Franklin Afterschool Enrichment program , tutoring children of the college ’s dining hall staff , as well as children subsist in nearby public living accommodations project .
Chan recalled the impuissance she felt when the tyke she mentor were mug after school , or injured at home . " I realise that my prep help was going to totally be otiose if these kids could n’t be good for you , safe and felicitous in the place that they live , " she explained . " That really drive a lot of what I decided to do in my living and vocation . "
Chan hopes The Primary School will provide a safe and healthy infinite for untested children to learn and acquire . She told theMercury Newsthat while she has long wanted to help oneself improve educational chance for children , having her first child gave that goal a sense of urging . " Before I had Max , I had all these experiences that return me what I felt like was a hard empathy for how important it is for children to have all these opportunities and how much family unit require to place and desire the best for their small fry , " she said . " But after I had Max , I find that every day . "
