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Real parent involvement not bought at Walgreen’s (memories of Field School)

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Parents protest Walgreens' opposition to fair school funding (1993)

So, Rahm Emanuel went swimming at his health club recently and got a great idea – give parents a $25 gift card from Walgreen’s and solve the parent involvement problem! (I guess the pool had already given him enough great ideas for solving Chicago’s homicide epidemic.)
He took this great idea to my old neighborhood school, Eugene Field Elementary, and, with Walgreen’s CEO Greg Wasson, announced that parents at 70 schools with low parental involvement would receive cards loaded with 25,000 ”customer loyalty” points (worth $25).
“This is a way, in my view, of incentivizing responsible parenting,” said Rahm.
Right. Because parents have no real incentive for supporting their children’s education.
Setting the press conference at Field brought back some powerful