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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the article is inspiring, honestly, but they don't say what exactly is in this secret sauce. What is it they're doing, just opening the conversation and having select group of non-involved POC parents take part? If it works, that's great, and I hope our school participates, but...also who is paying them? Can we copy some techniques?

Agree it's an infomercial, a bit short on details, but it certainly caught my attention. I think while we don't really know what their approach actually is, there are any number of things that we need to be doing better to have strong parent communities and what we typically do is not working well enough.[/quote]

This.  What, specifically, is the secret sauce?  A paid facilitator?  Because I have tried all kinds of things, and hardly anyone, of any background or income level, shows up.  What is a school to do if they cannot afford Kindred?

Also, there are a lot of other pressing issues.  Engagement is important, yes.  But maybe if the PTA a track record of real accomplishments, that would help.  Maybe if the school didn't have so many problems, people would be more interested.  Doing all these flyers and everything costs money and it isn't working.  The school can't even get it together to put the flyers in the backpacks half the time.  We can't afford food at meetings yet.  I pay the sitter out of my own pocket because so few other children are even there.[/quote]

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