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Our
society perpetuates the idea that if you live in the older part of our city
you are a failure and support a failing school system. There are too
many examples of our public schools in older neighborhoods being places of
low achievement. People are afraid that if they place their hopeful,
motivated child in one of our low achieving schools, in an older
neighborhood their child will lose hope and stop achieving.
We should encourage present public and private school efforts
to promote special opportunities in older neighborhood schools for the many
students who are motivated and want to be high achievers.
We should encourage and participate in present public and
private school efforts to involve the parents of all students in the
learning process. If the parents are excited in learning.. their lives will be enhanced
and they are more likely motivate their children to learn in school.
There are too few opportunities for people in older
neighborhoods to work and socialize together to help combat the "move
up move out" idea. Our older neighborhoods have churches and
schools (the institutions that bring people together) that have too few
participants for their programs who live in the surrounding neighborhood.
These institutions that once held neighbors and neighborhoods together are
not serving that purpose like they did in the past. Where different age
groups once mingled and worked together at the church and school in their
neighborhood, now adults often are
suspicious and even afraid of their neighbors and teenagers in their
neighborhood.
We should encourage and participate in present public and
private school efforts to become more involved in the neighborhoods
surrounding their schools.
We should encourage present school efforts to make it easier
for children in the surrounding neighborhood to attend their neighborhood
school.
We should encourage and participate in present
neighborhood school efforts to be the "center of neighborhood
activities."
We should encourage and participate in public and private
schools efforts in supporting neighborhood
resident activities.
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