Patrick Henry Needs Help Moving Tables
From the Patrick Henry School of Arts and Science;
We need some able-bodied volunteers to lifts and move some tables, magazine racks and chairs this Saturday, 4/17 at 9 am at Westover Hills Library and help transport them to PHSSA and move them inside. We rented a small moving van to make this effort easier. We will start loading the van at Westover Hills Library at 9 am, hopefully have everything in place by 10 am, drive it over to the school, unload and hopefully be finished by 11 am.
We are thinking we’ll need about 5 or 6 people to make this go as quickly as possible. Below is the address for the library. The school is located at 3411 Semmes Avenue. Please contact Kelly Bulbulkaya at kelly.bulbulkaya@patrickhenrycharter.org or 307-3113 if you can help out.
I would just like to point out that our neighborhood public schools also typically need volunteers (especially parents) on a daily basis. I can think of at least two schools off the top of my head that would be overjoyed to have some extra hands for the library and/or afterschool duties.
As a new arrival to the Hills & Heights area I would have to say that I agree that the people in this community like to help & need help in lots of areas.
I think it would be a great idea for those schools in need contact Richard to post their needs so that we can lend a hand there too.
Just to point out that Patrick Henry is a public school. The poster is correst that our other public schools also need volunteers. It is volunteers, for instance, who have created and maintained the excellent learning garden at Southampton.
We will gladly post events and volunteer requests from any neighborhood school. I think with Patrick Henry they have to turn more to the community right now because they don’t have that natural pool of volunteers, the PTA.
Besides helping with Patrick Henry, I volunteer my time and design skills to JB Fisher. I also helped with fundraisers that the now defunct Friends of Fourth District Schools ran.
There’s a great quote on Huguenot High’s sign “I wondered why somebody didn’t do something and then I realized that I was somebody.”
I agree with both sides of the comments here. But as a teacher I must say schools like Patrick Henry would not be necessary if the same energy, advocacy and volunteerism were to be offered to your local neighborhood school. Schools like Patrick Henry negatively affect neighborhood schools in a number of ways, a diversion of funds from some of the most needy classrooms, bright flight-where the brightest kids leave and a feeling of inequality. If every child in the neighborhood can’t attend, than its not a level playing field. Patrick Henry may receive public school funding, but it is in essence a private school operating with public school funds.
I don’t teach at a school within the Hills and Heights neighborhood, but I will (as suggested here) contact the community/volunteer coordinator at all the schools in the Hills and Heights neighborhood and ask for a list of volunteer opportunities and post it here.
Every child can’t attend…but every child can apply and have an equal (lottery) chance at selection. If your point is that some children are handicapped because their parents don’t take advantage of existing opportunities, then that is a given.
Ahhh…public funding. always gets people going. We actually choose to move INTO the city of Richmond because of the charter school. That means bringing our tax dollars with us.
If our child did not get in then we were happy to have him attend one of the other public schools on this side of the river.
We are looking forward to volunteering in many places.