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Reply to "PSA: Fairfax County Proposed Budget CANCELS Middle School After School Programs"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mathcounts is parent volunteer led, not teacher led. I think the big question is if this means cutting the after school busses. Clubs like D&D, Magic the Gathering, and the like could be parent led. That model though leads to the same issues we have in ES where some scholls have lots of PTA sponsored programs and others have little to nothing.[/quote] Are there a lot of parent volunteers who want to run D&D club every week at 2:15? There are not where I work. And the reality is if there are a surplus of afternoon parent volunteers willing to commit weekly for 2 hours for a year, then that is a school that probably doesn't need the after school program, these kids aren't going back to empty homes and running around unsupervised for 3+ hours until adults get home (which is what the program was aimed at preventing). The schools that really, desperately need this kind of programming are the ones where the kids don't have adults at home in the afternoons/evenings, so there wouldn't be parent volunteers. I would be okay with scaling it back--if the school population make up doesn't support the need for free programming, then don't do it. If Larlo is going to gymnastics/swimming/hockey/scouts after school anyway, then he probably doesn't need open gym at school. But if a kid doesn't get to do ECs due to money/logistics, then after school basketball in the gym is pretty awesome and it would be sad to lose it. The stats overwhelmingly show students use it at my school.[/quote]
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