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星期五, 8月 01, 2014

全美第一批公立小學Mather慶375歲生日

Hundreds of Volunteers help Spruce-up Historic Mather Elementary in preparation for its 375th Anniversary

BOSTON- More than 300 volunteers participated in ‘Service Day’ at the historic Mather Elementary School Friday, sprucing-up the interior and outside grounds of the four-floor, red brick building on Meetinghouse Hill in Dorchester.

The fix-up prepares the school to celebrate its 375th anniversary as America's first tax-supported elementary school.  The school hopes for a visit from the First Family and has extended an invitation through a cute video starring several students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DKjaOjCB4w

The volunteers, with paint rollers, brushes, brooms and hammers in hand, were busy in every corner and hallway. An outdoors basketball court was transformed into a carpenter’s workshop with the requisite power tools and stacks of lumber. Volunteers repainted a large map of America on the concrete ground in front of the school. Carpenters unloaded dozens of smoothly sanded cabinets and bookshelves. Municipal workers spray-painted arrows and numbers on the street in front of the school, prepping the blacktop for repaving. 

The community partners who pitched in include Boston Cares, the Boston Consulting Group, Target, The Mission Continues, Boston Urban Outreach, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 35, the New England Regional Council of Carpenters and City Sprouts.

The overall net worth of the Service Day including labor and supplies was estimated at upwards of $100,000.  The school is also seeking to raise $375,000 of funding or in-kind donations/services towards improving the school building, providing professional and academic supports for students and teachers, and equipping the school with much needed technology.

 The Boston Public Schools, the birthplace of public education in the United States,
serves more than 57,000 pre-kindergarten through grade 12 students in 128 schools.

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