The idea of full-service schooling has aroused considerable interest. One in four children growing up in America cannot become a healthy, self-sustaining adult without immediate attention. We must call on schools and community institutions to come together in an organized movement to help young people gain equal opportunities to grow into responsible adults.
Schools have to become places where all children can learn.
Community agencies must become more responsive to their constituencies as part of effective unfragmented school-based networks of care where families can go to strengthen their powers to help their children and themselves. A range of activities has taken place within schools in addition to the usual teaching. One of the expressions of this has been the community school movement - perhaps the best known historical example being the approaches developed in Flint, Michigan in the mid1930s. This movement grew in significant part out of the need to extend educational and recreational opportunities to adults and young people in local communities. In contrast, the recent interest in 'full-service' schooling has its origins in more remedial or meliorative concerns.