Navy SEAL deployments are often long and grueling, and leaving school-age children behind only adds to the challenge, especially if the children are struggling in school.
If a father is “getting ready to go on mission, and there’s Timmy failing in second grade, that’s all he’s going to think about,” says Gretchen McIntosh, the executive director of SEALKIDS.
And for the mothers at home with a husband deployed and a child struggling academically, McIntosh says, Mom is often “stressed out” by the task of meeting the needs of a “child at home that has a learning disability.”
Out of seeing an immense need for additional educational support for many Navy SEAL families, the organization SEALKIDS was born.
“SEALKIDS steps in so that Dad can concentrate on his mission ahead, because we’re handling the mission at home,” McIntosh…
