EDITORIAL HOORAY FOR THE PIONEERS STUDENTS WIN WHEN PARENTS PARTICIPATE.MONSTER bureaucracies, mismanagement mis·man·age tr.v. mis·man·aged, mis·man·ag·ing, mis·man·ag·es To manage badly or carelessly. mis·man  age·ment n. of education funds and overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. classrooms have all taken a toll on California's primary schools. But one of the factors contributing to the downfall cannot be dismissed: uninvolved un·in·volved adj. Feeling or showing no interest or involvement; unconcerned: an uninvolved bystander. Adj. 1. parents. The community has for the most part divorced itself from classrooms, leaving the education of children up to a few hired hands. This has been encouraged here in Los Angeles by a district that has traditionally wanted sole control of how kids are taught. In the Northeast San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , however, many parents are getting themselves reinvolved thanks to a group called Parent Pioneers. This parent-to-parent program teaches people how to take charge and help their child get the most they can out of school - overcrowded classrooms or not. This trailblazing trail·blaz·ing adj. Suggestive of one that blazes a trail; setting out in a promising new direction; pioneering or innovative: trailblazing research; a trailblazing new technique. group deserves credit for helping traditionally disenfranchised parents see how they can shape their child's future. Now, if only they could spread that idea to the rest of parents, they might be able to take back the classrooms and make the state's educational system the envy of the nation once again. |
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