Parker Junior High seventh graders Ben Rodriguez, left, and Memo Lopez, right, work on statistics to help them with charting a census question. (Provided photo)
Parker Junior High students in Flossmoor went home with a specific task from their social studies teachers: make certain their families file information with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Census forms were mailed to households in the Homewood-Flossmoor area in mid-March. Information can be filed online and by mail. The official start date for the 2020 census is April 1.
Lessons on the importance of the census were . . .
