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National Volunteer Week: Meet Kelly Scott
Meet Kelly Scott. Mother of Rock Hill senior, junior, and 8th grader. Volunteer.
Kelly Scott has been volunteering in the Rock Hill school system for the past 13 years, starting when her youngest was in kindergarten. Kelly took the leap into school volunteering because she wanted to be involved where her child was going to school and to give back to the teachers but she says she gets so much out of it. “You feel that connection and you build relationships,” Kelly said, “It gives you a natural high.”
Kelly is heavily involved in the School Improvement Council (SIC) at Sullivan Middle School, an organization led by parents with members also consisting of teachers, administration, and community members. The organization is to support school initiatives, provide resources, and to support the goals laid out by the school. Kelly has been involved with achieving several of these initiatives and goals which in the last year have included improving parent communication (parents to school, school to home), advising the principal on the best way to put together a newsletter that would appeal to parents, creating a parent perspective survey, and helping with canvas parent videos as another way for parents to communicate with the teachers.
There is room for everyone if you want to become a volunteer within the school community. “If you are thinking of volunteering, don’t put it off,” advises Kelly, “It’s really been a big passion to me since my children started 13 years ago and I won’t give it up for a long time. We’re all in this together is a popular phrase and school is where we are all in this together. You’re more successful when you are all doing it together than just one or two people. I feel that if everyone volunteers just a little bit then how much more successful our students would be, and they would feel loved and cared about even more than they do now!”