Parent and Community Involvement

By Beth Hunkapiller

Support for our children.

San Carlos schools are healthy, stimulating places for children because of excellent teachers, involved parents and a supportive community, all of whom place great importance on quality education for children.

Our parents and community make a difference. Parents participate in the classroom, on the the playground at noon time, before and after school, in fundraising, in the PTAs, in site councils and governance councils. They mentor, tutor, and often become employed in the schools. Many community members once involved in the same ways, as former parents, never feel far. Many of them stay involved as tutors and mentors, also.

This community is stable and while its percentage of youth under 18 has increased from 18.5% in 1990 to 22% in 2000, a significant portion of adults stay in San Carlos after raising their children. Their knowledge and support of the City and schools make the community strong. Others now choose San Carlos as a place in which to raise children because the community as a whole sees its active involvement in the development of children as important.

I feel responsibility to be deserving of the trust of so special a community and pledge continuing care and attention to our schools.