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WHEREAS, it is our collective responsibility to provide for the well-being of our children by passing on a strong work ethic, teaching them a sense of right and wrong and giving them support, guidance and skills to insure that they have every opportunity to succeed; and,
WHEREAS, Pittsburgh Board of Public Education Member Mark Brentley is the Founder and Co-Chairperson of Take Your Father To School Day , which is celebrating its 11th Annual Day, and was designed for the School Board to implement and embrace the idea that fathers are important to the educational process; and,
WHEREAS, Take Your Father to School Day emphasizes the involvement of both parents in the lives of their children in order to respond and reverse societal trends that have lessened and discouraged the participation of fathers in the formal education of their children; and,
WHEREAS, for the sake of our children, the well being of our neighborhoods and the future of our nation, fathers of school age children are encouraged to participate to the fullest extent possible in their children's education and to take the opportunity to attend school with their children on May 21, 2009; and,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby acknowledge this worthy and important program and hereby congratulates School Board Member and Chairman of Take Your Father to School Day Mark Brentley and all of his volunteers and participants who give of themselves to further the growth and healthy development of our city's children; and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby declare Thursday, May 21, 2009, to be " TAKE YOUR FATHER TO SCHOOL DAY" in the City of Pittsburgh.