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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I went to *private* school in Europe (K to MS) and we never dreamed of a lot if the things in one of the pp lists. Chess club? Music in ES? AV system for theater productions ? It wound have sounded totally crazy to ask for those things.

I feel it is the sane thing with hospitals and colleges: a lot if bells and whistles here look over the top to an outsider like me. 
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These sort of amenities are normal in JKLM, Stoddert, Mann, Eaton, Brent, as well as suburban public schools in affluent neighborhoods all around the country.  Having them is a sign that a school is thriving by primarily serving its immediate community.  Those who don't believe in neighborhood schools need to challenge the paradigm politically, like San Francisco citizens did years ago.

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Let me go a step further.  There are many charters that have put in place these "amenities."  (I should note that I know of at least a half dozen DCPS schools not listed above, some with--gasp!--large OOB populations).  It's not the NEIGHBORHOOD that puts in place  enrichment programming, it's the school COMMUNITY.  It doesn't matter what ward of the city the families call home.  The school COMMUNITIES that have created these wonderful "extras" for ALL of the kids that attend there, did so with major family contributions of time, talent and money.  And let's be clear, generally speaking, you'll only get 20% of the people to do 80% of the work.  But a core 20% can change the world.  If you want these things at your school, start building that 20%.  Bitching and screaming and throwing temper tantrums on DCUM is not going to get it done.

Signed--An OOBs parent who leads the 20% at a school with an incredible amount of "extras".

PS-  At my school, IB parents work with OOB parents and don't put on plastic gloves to do so.
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