{"id":28208,"date":"2016-08-17T06:43:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T10:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2016-08-17T06:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T10:43:50","slug":"whirlpool-put-laundry-machines-in-some-schools-and-increased-attendance-by-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/whirlpool-put-laundry-machines-in-some-schools-and-increased-attendance-by-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirlpool Put Laundry Machines In Some Schools And Increased Attendance By 90%"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Whirlpool\u00a0Care Counts program put laundry machines in schools and made a huge difference in attendance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you think about kids in middle school who have attendance problems, it can be easy to blame the parents (or the kids themselves), shake your head, and throw up your hands at a problem that is too big to be fixable. But what if all some of these kids need are clean clothes to wear to school? Whirlpool has taken on what could be dismissed as a minor issue and seen tremendous results.<\/p>\n

Last year the good people at Whirlpool created the Whirlpool Care Counts Program<\/a>\u00a0and donated seventeen pairs of washers and dryers to school districts in St. Louis and in Fairfield, California. The schools then invited kids with attendance problems to bring in their laundry to be cleaned while they were in class.<\/p>\n

The results were astounding: over 90% of participating students increased their attendance that year, at-risk students attended almost two more weeks of school, and each student got\u00a0approximately\u00a050 loads of laundry done at school. This year, Whirlpool will expand the program to twenty more schools in five more districts.<\/p>\n