Word: parental
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...midday errand. The message: If you must own a car, leave it in your garage at home. Washington Metro officials have placed 107 Flexcars and Zipcars at 66 city and suburban stations. And downtown Seattle has 35 Flexcars so that members can scoot across town for lunch or a parent-teacher meeting. "Car sharing is not a silver bullet," says Ref Lindmark, a transportation planner for King County, Wash. "But it gives people another reason to ride the bus." And, he adds, it is a lot cheaper than building million-dollar parking lots and billion-dollar highways...
...with the Army. "They call and tell us there's no update," Keith says. "We're not getting bummed out. We're actually getting pissed." Every so often Carolyn gets the urge to hunt for her son herself. "But then I realize that's just the anger of a parent," she says. "They tell me Iraq is as big as California. Where would I start looking?" Senior U.S. military officers in Washington and Iraq share the family's frustration. "We keep following up every lead we can," an Army colonel familiar with the search says. "But given the kind...
...sincerity and conviction in him." Carolyn says, "He found the time to come out here and talk to us, and that's a great thing for a President to do. He says they're doing all they can, but, of course, to a parent, that's never enough...
Lareau also sees cultural barriers getting in the way of the strong parent-teacher alliance. When parents don't get involved at school, teachers may see it as a sign of indifference, of not valuing education--when it may signal the reverse. Some cultures believe strongly that school and home should be separate spheres; parents would no more interfere with the way a teacher teaches than with the way a surgeon operates. "Working-class and poor families don't have a college education," says Lareau. "They are looking up to teachers; they respect teachers as professionals. Middle-class parents...
...Remember the F word: focus. The aim of a parent-teacher conference is for adults to build a mutually respectful alliance that will support a child's sometimes difficult journey through school...