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Showing Original Post only (View all)Whirlpool Put Laundry Machines In Some Schools And Increased Attendance By 90% [View all]
The Whirlpool Care Counts program put laundry machines in schools and made a huge difference in attendance
When you think about kids in middle school who have attendance problems, it can be easy to blame the parents (or the kids themselves), shake your head, and throw up your hands at a problem that is too big to be fixable. But what if all some of these kids need are clean clothes to wear to school? Whirlpool has taken on what could be dismissed as a minor issue and seen tremendous results.
Last year the good people at Whirlpool created the Whirlpool Care Counts Program and donated seventeen pairs of washers and dryers to school districts in St. Louis and in Fairfield, California. The schools then invited kids with attendance problems to bring in their laundry to be cleaned while they were in class.
The results were astounding: over 90% of participating students increased their attendance that year, at-risk students attended almost two more weeks of school, and each student got approximately 50 loads of laundry done at school. This year, Whirlpool will expand the program to twenty more schools in five more districts.
When compared to factors like economic opportunity, unemployment, and institutional racism, laundry seems pretty inconsequential in the fight to keep kids in school. But while that might be the case for their parents, for a ten-year-old who already has the odds stacked against them, having nothing clean to wear to school could be the deciding factor in whether or not they want to face their classmates that day.
http://www.scarymommy.com/whirlpool-care-counts-improves-attendance-in-schools/
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The process of doing the laundry varies by school, but it is always coordinated by the programme leader. Many ask parents to come in and do the laundry for their children, signing up for time slots that fit their schedule. Whirlpool is also providing supplies like detergent and fabric sheets.
http://www.contagious.com/blogs/news-and-views/from-laundry-to-learning
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Whirlpool Put Laundry Machines In Some Schools And Increased Attendance By 90% [View all]
Liberal_in_LA
Aug 2016
OP
Huh. A study by a washing machine manufacturer that says they need washing machines. lol
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#4
Brought food to kids in class. Needed more, which is why we have school lunch programs, and not
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#8
Often resulting in graduates who make allegations lacking any objective evidence to support it.
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#59
Be a lot more likely to be hired if there are jobs at the washing machine factory for their parents,
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#24
As long as they don't say ignoring the kids, and then giving them extra attention because of the
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#36
Perhaps they should have asked why the need was there, and why the parents didn't
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#25
I like how you want to throw in what you think without even asking, replacing asking with
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#30
No food stamps for toilet paper either, so make sure and keep your toilet open.
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#41
I hope you're not a Democrat, and I hope you don't call yourself a liberal or a progressive.
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#73
When I left high school in 1971, Democrats were turning over black kids school buses. These were
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#76
It is their assertion, not mine, to prove. There is about 75 years of educational
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#45
They pay me to fix things others can't, not to make excuses. You simply aren't used to that. n/t
jtuck004
Aug 2016
#57
Who pissed in your corn flakes this morning? Just who is Whirlpool supposed to be marketing to
catbyte
Aug 2016
#63
You have never been homeless, have you? I bet you, like so many others, just wash their clothes
AgadorSparticus
Aug 2016
#87
thank you, whirlpool,. sometimes it is seemingly simple things that can make such a difference.
niyad
Aug 2016
#16
My sister has been taking her students' laundry home to wash for 20 years...
Still In Wisconsin
Aug 2016
#27
Wow! What a novel idea. Makes a lot of sense. Also having the parents come in to help
FighttheFuture
Aug 2016
#70