We want parents to feel comfortable.

It's good because the parents and visitors get to come and talk about what they do to the students, and the students feel good because a lot of them know who the presenters are. Everyone has a good feeling.

That's often the hardest thing for the parents to learn is that they must go so slow. I sometimes describe it as excruciatingly slow for the parent because we live in a very fast-paced world.

There is a certain level of sensitivity [when parents want to transfer students]. But the district has a responsibility to manage the overcrowded schools.

I don't think parents address the whole child. I think they fragment and they focus on education, and they neglect the social emotional side of child rearing.

Whatever they end up doing as adults, they'll have to be highly technical and computer literate.