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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a look at the schools with highest farm rates. Just being title 1 isn't necessarily enough. Some of the title 1 schools have tremendous wealth at their disposal, but we have elementary schools with 70-80 percent poverty. They truly don't the numbers to have a good balance. Arlington is so messed up. [/quote]

Doesn't matter what school they go to -- needy kids are needy kids. OP just asking how to find out how/where to help. Pretty sure most Arlington schools have kids that could use some help, although you're right, some have more than others.[/quote]

OP here, you are right that needy kids are needy kids, but also right that some schools have more than others and I think the broader community wealth makes a difference in how well those kids' needs are met. In our school, there are several programs in place between the PTA and the school itself to provide assistance to needy students, whether indirectly (such PTA funding field trips so no students have to pay, or providing bulk classroom supplies to teachers so they have what they need regardless of whether parents can afford to buy them), or directly (such as maintaining a supply of clean, good-condition donated clothing and outerwear that can be given to students who come to school without proper clothing because their families can't afford to buy them winter gloves or long pants). Not to mention that teachers and the PTA can ask the parents for more than the actual per-student contribution needed, knowing that most of us won't bat an eye and the extra will cover those who can't afford it.

From everything I've read and heard (including from friends who are teachers in other areas in lesser-privileged schools), a lot of that simply isn't the case in less affluent schools. So yes, a needy child in my north-of-Lee Highway elementary school may be just as much in need as needy students in south Arlington, but there are a lot more resources available here to meet those needs without having to reach outside our immediately community or have the teachers kick in their own money.[/quote]

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