Who Are The Friends of Franklin?
Friends of Franklin is made up of parents just like you.
We are the only parent organization at the school. We meet monthly and discuss issues that effect our school. We work on ways to raise funds to pay for various enrichment programs and we decide which programs we want to support. At the end of every term we lose important active families to graduation. We are in need of new blood, new ideas and new energy. Please get involved. Choose a committee that interests you or join us at our monthly meetings. Everyone has something to offer. Look for our flyers and our e-newsletter (to sign up e-mail us at friends.of.franklin@gmail.com).
We will be recruiting and electing new officers in May and June and hope that you will join us in helping all of our children at Franklin be the very best that they can. We are all about creating opportunities for our students and assisting the faculty and administration in preparing them for middle school and beyond.
What Do We Do?
We choose the fund raisers that raise the money that pay for the enrichments that all of our children benefit from. Art, Music, Science, Technology and Field Trips, all once provided for by the district, are now luxuries.
Friends of Franklin has begun to lobby for improvements to the physical school plant. We have succeeded in getting the school painted, the roof repaired, and the fencing replaced. Now, we are working on new playground asphalt, modern playground equipment, and updated plumbing for the bathrooms.
We believe that the school is a community center, bringing together families from diverse cultures. We all benefit from crossing barriers and gaining understanding and tolerance. We rely completely on parent involvement. We need your help with our events and we all need to take responsibility for offering our children all they deserve.
Please, we depend on parents like you to get involved in any way you can. We can use time and /or money. We are way behind in our fund raising goals for this year and hope that you will be responsive to our upcoming fund drives.
Friends of Franklin depends on our families to support the efforts to make Franklin Ave. School the best it can be. Please join us at our next meeting; to be aranged. To be notified when it is set, please email us
Childcare is usually available for meetings.
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