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The Parent's Association USE YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL
Use Your Local School is a parents´association that works in three of the most multicultural areas of Copenhagen.
Our main objectives are
- To work to ensure that an increasing number of parents in the local districts choose the municipal school
- To work to ensure that the ethnic and social mix of students in municipal schools in all areas of Copenhagen reflect the ethnic and social mix of the population of Copenhagen
- To be a forum for debate and discussion of questions of common interest to parents of current and future school children
Our activities
- Parents' networks.We collect e-mail addresses and organise networks around every one of the schools we work with. We are bringing the parents together so they can get to know each other and enrol their children together
- Newsletters
We send out newsletters telling the good stories from our schools. - Homepage
We have a homepage and are on facebook - Action Day
Every year we have an action day. Parents , school leaders and teachers stand in front of kindergartens talking about their local schools and giving flags to the children: In 2010 we made a big flash mob - Cultural activities and meetings at schools
We make theatres for children and dialog meetings for the parents - Visits in kindergartens
Volunteer parents from the local schools visit parents to tell about their personal experiences with the schools - Participation in local markets and community
festivals
Here volunteer parens talk to other parents about the local school - Workshops and debate
We are arranging workshops at schools to boost parental cooperation - Meeting politicians
We meet with politicians and urge them and the administration to design solutions that counteract the social and ethnic segregation and urge them to listen to and use parents' experiences. - In 2010 we participated in International Perspectives on Countering School Segregation.
