Let’s Fight For Our Right To After-School Activities

Committee Forming Now to Ponder After-School Program

How much would you love your kids to participate in a karate or ballet class after school? How about cooking or a foreign language? Even math?  These dreams could be realized as early as this spring as we form a committee to start the brainstorming of a PS 39 After-school Program.

Alex Marshall (aka The Tall Guy), is heading up the After-School Program Exploratory Committee

Alex Marshall (dad of first-grader Max) is heading up the exploration. However, easy does it with a dream this big. Instead of overwhelming everyone with dozens of choices, we will investigate a workable pilot program and then build from there. We’re also going to seek advice from area schools that have had success with similar after-school program start-ups.

A call is going out for volunteers to help make this a reality (we need brain-stormers and movers/shakers. You know who you are.).

In the meantime, a survey is in the works to sample the wish lists of PS 39 parents (“survey says…!”).  Once a consensus starts to form, the structure will be built from there.  Get your pencils sharpened, and look for that survey soon.

“There is kind of a chicken and egg challenge,” Alex says of getting this party started. “People tend to participate once these programs are up and going, but they are hard to offer unless we have some idea that people will participate.”

That’s why it’s up to us to step up right away and give that little extra effort for extracurricular!

To get involved, contact: Alex Marshall.


 -- Ron Sklar, PS 39 Reporter at Large