Word: mangalino
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...drop her off, and I'm at work in five minutes," says Mangalino-Pasa, an assistant nurse manager at Mount Sinai. "If she were in another school, I'd have to wait around to send her to school at 8:30. Plus, if there's a school event or if I want to have lunch with her, I can walk right over...
Unlike most other working parents, Esmeralda Mangalino-Pasa doesn't worry about the logistics of getting her second-grade daughter to and from school. She just brings Kassandra Pasa, 7, to work with her at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach at 7 each morning--just when she's supposed to start her job. Kassandra, along with 90 other children of employees, is there to attend Mount Sinai's on-site elementary school, which is run by Dade County Public Schools but uses Mount Sinai's facilities. At the end of her nursing shift at 3:30 p.m., Mangalino...
...fact, it's the extra time Mangalino-Pasa gets with Kassandra that makes going to work each day all the more enjoyable. "We have to drive to and from Mount Sinai, so we get an hour and a half of quality time every day," says Mangalino-Pasa. "We turn off the radio and talk about her day and practice math and spelling. You can't exchange that for anything...
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