Mine too. The Washington Post article she linked to had some interesting tidbits:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...4176.html?sid=ST2009012904412&s_pos=These parent insurgents are gaining influence -- and getting things changed.
What binds them is impatience with the school establishment and an aptitude for harnessing the power of the Internet to push for change.
"We worked for a number of years before we had kids," she said. "We know how to research and find information and connect the dots. To expect us to show up and just make photos or write checks does not sit well with this generation. If you are going to invite parents in the door . . . it should be more of a partnership."
Still, school officials acknowledge the growing challenge to their authority.
"It used to be that the superintendent and the School Board made decisions and said, 'This is how it's going to be,' and the community would accept that...No longer."
Former Fairfax superintendent Daniel A. Domenech said outspoken, savvy parents can be crucial allies in the fight for school funding. "The other side of the coin, of course, is you have to produce, because they are going to hold your feet to the fire," he said.
School officials "are always in the position of having to be defensive and to correct misinformation because they are not proactive," she said.
many school systems "are still responding to 21st-century parents with 20th-century approaches."
We need these well-wired activists to write a how-to guide for the rest of us that aren't as savvy.
