Hawthorne Community Does the Hard Work
I visited Hawthorne earlier this year when they opened their Family Support room. The Times has a story about the energy surging through this school from both parents and staff. This is how a community retakes and rebuilds its neighborhood school.
The story I was told was that a couple of neighborhood parents, when their kids were preschools, thought, "why wouldn't I go to my neighborhood school?" when neighbors tried to warn them off. Undeterred, they enrolled their children and had potlucks and neighborhood gatherings to talk about how to support the school and what
The story I was told was that a couple of neighborhood parents, when their kids were preschools, thought, "why wouldn't I go to my neighborhood school?" when neighbors tried to warn them off. Undeterred, they enrolled their children and had potlucks and neighborhood gatherings to talk about how to support the school and what
