The All-Day Neighborhood Schools

Abstract

The All-Day Neighborhood Schools of the New York City Board of Education is a significant project. These are elementary schools in which additional staff are provided to help children during the schoolday and in an after school "club program" from three to five. The warm, personal rela tionship between teachers and children fuses home, school, and community into a sympathetic unit. Children of working pa rents who might otherwise be unsupervised in the empty after- school hours before the mother returns to the home, children needing help in learning processes, children with language and integration problems benefit from the program. Statistics show that there is a conspicuous lack of truancy and a mini mum of vandalism in these schools and that the delinquency rate declines.