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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In answer to your initial question, I don't think DC is right for you. [/quote]

I disagree, PP. They are EXACTLY like the many DC folks who stress about schools while kids are in utero   :wink: [/quote]

lol TOO TRUE![/quote]

So true.  I have been involved at our neighborhood school since DD turned 1.  We had a bad lottery number so she matched there, s[b]o I'm glad I got in early to work on it.[/b][/quote]

What does this even mean?  What I think it really means is "gentrifiers set foot in the building and learn it's not a scary place."  But people act like improving a school is something earnest volunteers can "work on" like making sandwiches once a year at a homeless shelter on thanksgiving ... [/quote]

Not PP, but there is a lot of low-hanging fruit at most DCPS schools. Many don't have a lot of after school clubs and activities, for example, and many don't have a tutoring program but could really use one. In a perfect world these sorts of resources would be provided by the government and automatically in place where needed. But in the world we actually live in, providing these resources to Title I schools requires reaching out to a network of non-profit service providers and in some cases finding money to pay for it. 
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+1.  It really is quite easy to come up with low cost after school activities that are fun and give the kids something they might not otherwise get to do.  I ran an 8 week Chess Club one year.  Another time I coached a few kids on reciting a poem and they performed at an assembly.  Other parents at our school have done yoga, juggling, origami, safe cooking projects, various science type things, taught about their language and culture, writing a short play, career day presentations, whatever.  All you have to do is take a few hours off work and purchase the supplies, no big deal.  Or if you just come in and read stories to a small group, that frees up the other staff to work intensively with other kids and everyone gets more attention.  Getting cleared to volunteer is not hard at all.  I recommend it![/quote]

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