It might be
possible for a neighborhood child to bring assignments home to your child, and return his or her completed homework assignments or take home tests to his or her teachers.
Among the concessions to neighbors would be greater access to the school's athletic events,
scholarships for neighborhood children to participate in sports camps and a public dock at the waterfront.
One team of teens spent this summer planning a
carnival for neighborhood children as a strategy to raise funds and visibility for a nonprofit cause they care about: supporting youth in foster care.
The 9 - acre park, to be completed in November, will feature a playground, a sled hill, an outdoor ice skating rink, a wood chip mountain bike path, an asphalt jogging and bike path, a sand volleyball court and an open
field for neighborhood children to play on.
Ognibene also criticized Crowley over the Council's approval of a new high school for Maspeth without
concessions for neighborhood children and a curb cut for buses, suggesting she could have won the concessions from the city School Construction Authority if she had consulted more Council members behind the scenes before the vote.
Charter schools that are immersive bilingual, have a military theme, offer a no - excuses culture, or promote a Waldorf philosophy where children do not begin reading until age seven all might be considered inappropriate for a neighborhood school that is the default
choice for all neighborhood children.
Eventually, DCPS plans to guarantee preschool
slots for neighborhood children at all its high - poverty schools, but for this coming school year that policy is in place at only five schools.