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Where Manual Labor Is the Price of Academic Excellence - The Bay Citizen

Where Manual Labor Is the Price of Academic Excellence - The Bay Citizen

Where Manual Labor Is the Price of Academic Excellence

Parental involvement has helped Miraloma Elementary School boost its test scores and its reputation

By SCOTT JAMES on September 30, 2010 - 9:00 p.m. PDT

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Miraloma Elementary School
For parents at Miraloma Elementary School in San Francisco, the quest for academic achievement means getting their hands dirty.
On a cold, foggy Wednesday morning recently, seven parents huddled around an outdoor table scrubbing stalks of organic celery for snack time. They had just finished cleaning and portioning a