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A Bad Rap for Civic Engagement

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at 1:17 pm - by Stephanie Marudas. Filed under: Education.

As a volunteer, Greg Wade in 2006 started running the Philadelphia Home and School Council: a non-profit organization made up of parent groups representing individual public schools across the city. His peers recently reelected him for another two year term. As director, Wade’s duties included managing a fund supported by home and school associations across the city. Now, he’s been charged for embezzling $60,000 from that fund and awaits a preliminary hearing scheduled for next week. Let us know what you think about this. Considering Wade was a volunteer, is this a case of civic engagment at its worst? Civic entitlement, perhaps? Or something else?

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