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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Volunteering at a school is great, but it's not going to help the root of the problem which is the backgrounds of where some of these kids come from. [/quote]

I am the poster who I think you're responding to, and while I agree that children learn negative habits at home, if the problem is that Jack and Jill do not know how to read and I come to school and tutor them in reading such that by the end of the year, they know how to read, that skill (developed with me) is protective against Jack and Jill's family's negative habits.

I'm not saying that it is a magic bullet, because it's a huge problem, but when you break it down to the classroom level, you're not talking about hundreds of kids to whom the bandaid of volunteer work and tutoring is being applied - you're talking about individuals helping other individuals to succeed. If you want 25% of a classroom of 20 kids to be reading at grade level, get some friends together and tutor 5 kids in that class regularly. I would certainly prefer to do that than say "The thing you are doing is great, but it doesn't matter because the problem is too big for you to fix." Naturally, YMMV.[/quote]

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