It's my hope that teachers and parents will use music just like they use good food and vegetables -- that there's a place for it in their diet, ... The Mozart Effect.

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

The administrators and teachers have opened doors for parents. The more parents participate, the better academic results the kids will have.

This will be a centre for one-stop shopping, something I hope will be repeated across the city to replace our ageing community centres, ... It will help us get more and more people out of their cars and onto buses or walking.

A number of families who attended Eighth Street are back as parents and teachers now. It seems that it is very common amongst people coming home - Ashley and I are not unique in that regard. Our parents instilled in us a sense of connection when we were young. It's great to see our daughter go to our school and encounter that feeling of comfort and camaraderie, that feeling of home.

[I asked some experienced parents what they do about this. They endorse the view of the best principals and teachers: Whatever the resistance, do your best to talk the problem out with the people at the school. Dick and Karen Reed, who have had two daughters in Fairfax County schools, say a face-to-face meeting with the teacher and the relevant administrator is best. You have to make sure the meeting does not end until the problem is defined and a solution agreed upon. Then, and this is the part that I was too lazy ever to try, the Reeds compose a summary of the discussion and the agreement and send it to the educators.] I don't accept corrections or edits from them, ... I do offer to meet again if they wish to change something.