<p>I am not sure if this effort will come to fruition but it has generated a great deal of interest.
Owing to posts on collegeconfidential referring to Texas schools enrolling Katrina evacuees, several members of my high school alumni have decided to “adopt” a high school in Texas that has welcomed 100 evacuee students. This one adoption is leading to requests for other adoptions.
The plan is simple. A school in an unaffected area adopts a school that is enrolling evacuees. By adoption, I mean that students in the unaffected school hold fund raisers (penny fund raisers, etc) and send those monies to their sister schools along with personal letters of support to the evacuees as well as to the host students.<br>
There are currently a few posters on collegeconfidential who have joined in this effort in both providing the names of the schools in need as well as approaching their children’s schools for sponsorship.
As I am in NYC, I am looking for any NYC or suburban NYC parents who have any kind of influence (administrator, faculty, PTA) in their local public / private / religious elementary, middle, or high schools. If your school children are looking for a way to personally make a difference, please consider adopting a school. If you are in NYC or its suburbs and want to know more, please send me a private message. Thank you.</p>