Will parents help? 670 volunteer in Palo Alto

[SVPete]

Will parents help? 670 volunteer in Palo Alto

https://www.joannejacobs.com/2022/01/will-parents-help-670-volunteer-in-palo-alto/

The call for parent volunteers went out at 9 pm on Sunday, reports John Fensterwald on EdSource. By 9 am Monday, 360 Palo Alto (California) parents had offered to work as classroom aides, Covid testing staff, office workers, recess and lunch supervisors, custodians or whatever else is needed to keep the community’s schools open.

By Tuesday morning, 1 Palo Alto had 670 recruits, says Superintendent Don Austin. Volunteers — the number has passed 700 — started work today.

The schools wills stay open, he pledged. “There is nothing short of a state or county mandate or order that will shut us down. And if they do that they better be ready for a fight too. We are staying open.”
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I’ve read snide comments on social media implying that parents who want schools to open are selfish, lazy bums who are risking teachers’ lives to get free child care. I don’t think so.

Writer Joanne Jacobs is an old-school liberal, not a conservative ... and obviously NOT a new-school Prog. This is kind of personal to her, because her daughter attended school in the Palo Alto area, and she has hands-on-the-copy-machine parent-volunteer experience.

[Eupher]

Looks and sounds like communities taking care of each other.

Good stuff, and May the Force be With Them. 

[Ptarmigan]

Looks and sounds like communities taking care of each other.

Good stuff, and May the Force be With Them. 

Amen to that.