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Dewey Parents Pitch In

By Antonio D. French

Filed Thursday, October 20 at 2:54 PM

A common rap against St. Louis Public School parents is that they don't get involved. Somebody forgot to tell the parents at Dewey International Studies Elementary School.

On the weekends of October 8 and October 15, scores of Dewey parents volunteered their time to assemble and install new playground equipment at the school, equipment purchased with money raised by the Parent Teacher Organization (PTO).

Marianne Duersch, president of the Dewey PTO, estimated that the parent labor saved the PTO about $7,500, which was money they plowed back into buying more equipment for the kids to play on.

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