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How do you volunteer at the local school? My wife and I are both passionate about and interested in improving children’s lives, but not super sure how best to d

How do you volunteer at the local school? My wife and I are both passionate about and interested in improving children’s lives, but not super sure how best to do it outside of donations and big brother big sister-type programs. As an aside, maybe it’s because I’m inexperienced, but I’m finding it surprisingly hard to get connected with a group to help people that isn’t a highly specific cause like religion, LGBTQ, children of certain races, etc.??? Is it just me? I am clearly very ignorant about all this

anotheruser13 3y ago
I would like to volunteer as well, but it would have to be outside of home and school since I live in Texas. I would like to help young people learn to cope with being LGBTQ+, ADD, and other things, but I don't think parents would appreciate it.
- valval 3y ago
  Yeah maybe you should reserve that stuff for your own kids. Which you probably don’t have.
  - fallingfrog 3y ago
    Why? Helping kids develop study skills would help with adhd, helping kids deal with bullying would help with lgbtq issues. I can’t see how that would be harmful.
trogdor 3y ago
>I’m finding it surprisingly hard to get connected with a group to help people that isn’t a highly specific cause like religion, LGBTQ, children of certain races, etc. I recently started volunteering at my county’s animal shelter. The experience has been very rewarding.
subpixel 3y ago
Where I live the superintendent and local groups formed a task-force style intervention and looped in local volunteers. The scale of the problem is most visible through 'special ed' allocation. Once a program for kids with learning challenges, it now also encompasses what are essentially behavioral problems. Kids don't get kicked out of school for throwing raging tantrums or hitting teachers - they get placed into programs designed to keep them in school. (If that's what life is like at school, imagine what life is like at home.)

anotheruser13 3y ago

I would like to volunteer as well, but it would have to be outside of home and school since I live in Texas. I would like to help young people learn to cope with being LGBTQ+, ADD, and other things, but I don't think parents would appreciate it.

valval 3y ago
Yeah maybe you should reserve that stuff for your own kids. Which you probably don’t have.
- fallingfrog 3y ago
  Why? Helping kids develop study skills would help with adhd, helping kids deal with bullying would help with lgbtq issues. I can’t see how that would be harmful.

trogdor 3y ago

>I’m finding it surprisingly hard to get connected with a group to help people that isn’t a highly specific cause like religion, LGBTQ, children of certain races, etc. I recently started volunteering at my county’s animal shelter. The experience has been very rewarding.

subpixel 3y ago

Where I live the superintendent and local groups formed a task-force style intervention and looped in local volunteers. The scale of the problem is most visible through 'special ed' allocation. Once a program for kids with learning challenges, it now also encompasses what are essentially behavioral problems. Kids don't get kicked out of school for throwing raging tantrums or hitting teachers - they get placed into programs designed to keep them in school. (If that's what life is like at school, imagine what life is like at home.)