Today is National Good Neighbor Day

From the National Good Neigbor Day website:

Always the fourth Sunday in September, "National Good Neighbor Day" enjoys quite a long history of enthusiastic support from school-children, their parents, their teachers, community leaders, education leaders, congressmen and even Presidents of the United States! On this website, we would like to offer you, the children, parents, teachers and community leaders of our great nation, some ideas and some materials with which to celebrate "National Good Neighbor Day".

From Marc Borbely:

Please consider joining the DC Public Schools NeighborCorps, launched today, September 23, 2006. Sign up or call 202-544-2447.

The idea is simple: you identify one thing you're willing to do for your neighborhood school (elementary, middle or high) -- even just once a year! For example: reading to kids, talking to kids about your job, helping to fix computers, helping to raise money for the PTA, tutoring, helping with school activities, beautifying the grounds, calling parents about upcoming PTA meetings -- anything. We'll compile and update NeighborCorps resource lists for every school and give them to the principal and the PTA president every month. They'll call or e-mail you when they can use the help you've offered. (Note: DCPS requires volunteers interacting with children to pass a criminal background check and show proof of a negative TB test.)

Our neighborhood schools need our involvement, as activists and/or as volunteers -- and as owners. They're our schools.

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