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May 12, 2010

School to Parents: Volunteer or Else!

Katharine Miexzkowski:

Students are not the only ones at Adelante Dual Language Academy in San Jose who are graded on their classroom participation. Parents are, too.

Parents of children attending the public elementary school receive a check, plus or minus based on how much they volunteer in class. If mom and dad slack off they even might get a call from the principal.

Inspired by Adelante, now San Jose's Alum Rock Union Elementary School District is at work on a proposal to require the families of all its 13,000 students to do 30 hours of volunteering per school year. Many of the schools in the district, where 88 percent of the students are poor, do not even have a Parent-Teachers Association.


"We are trying to create a culture of strong parent-guardian-family participation," trustee Gustavo Gonzalez, whose children attend Adelante, told The San Jose Mercury News.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 12, 2010 1:09 AM
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