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Parent awareness and involvement in their children's education is a key to their success. Parent participation in the educational process enables them to know the classroom procedure and how their child is performing in that environment, and thus to better assist them there. It enables parents to know the peer group and how their child relates in that context, and thus influence those relationships. Therefore, CCS makes a commitment to its students and parents to make parent involvement accessable, flexible, and valued.
Parents who fill a regular staff position as a classroom aide one day a week have a lower tuition schedule. These positions are filled as needed. Classroom aide work hours are typically 8:00am to 4:00pm on their assigned day. Because CCS cannot provide babysitting service at the school, children are not allowed to accompany parent aides. If an aide needs to miss their assigned day, they are responsible to arrange for their own qualified substitutes and communicate these arrangements with their supervisor.
 Our Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) started our Parent Involvement Corps (PIC). Parents are required to contribute a minimum of 24 hours of school service for each family with children in grades 1 through 12 (12 hrs. for Kindergarten only families). These can be fulfilled in a variety of ways including, but not limited to, chaperoning field trips, lunchroom monitoring, administrative help, event coordinating, etc. Parents report their hours to the PIC secretary, who maintains a record of PIC involvement. If a family chooses, they may pay instead of spend the time (at a rate of $15/hr, to be billed half at mid year and half at the end of the school year).
Our annual Spring Auction is our largest and most important fundraiser. Every family is expected to participate in securing services or items, in planning, publicity, set-up, or organization. Each family is required to secure at least two auction items having a minimum value of $50 each. The first item is due in October, and the second in November (specific dates will be announced at the beginning of the school year). Families will be billed for items not secured. It is not our intent to burden families with another expense, but rather to have families contact local businesses to donate items or services. What we charge for tuition is less than the actual cost to operate our school. We depend on parent involvement in the PIC and in our Auction efforts to keep our budget balanced.
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