Parent Co-operative
GreenMount is based on a co-op model with parents actively participating in the school. Each parent is responsible for donating 40 hours of their time to the school each year, and generally signs up for a specific ongoing job. The jobs can range from serving on the GreenMount school board, to mopping the gym floor once a month, to teaching afterschool classes. Past classes include sewing, painting, hula hoop, and web page design.
Read more about this topic: The Green Mount School
Famous quotes containing the word parent:
“To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one’s parenthood, and one’s relation to one’s child...The security of the parent about being a parent will eventually become the source of the child’s feeling secure about himself.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)