School reform is the cry from Washington, D.C. to every local school district.

The latest commissions and research projects on successful "RESTRUCTURING" of our schools point out that in our rush to reform our so-called 19th century education system, we have passed over the most obvious and pursued many ideas that promised us a magic bullet to quick success.

The most important of all the REFORM errors recently made was not creating any well-organized Parent/Student High Achievement Partnership program.

Students are people, like adults, and they need much support, inspiration and motivation to maintain school interest and attain success. In almost all cases, the parents or guardians are most able to provide these crucially important elements of success.

Teachers are overloaded today. Without parental help in assuring student attendance, respect for their teachers, discipline in class and academic partnership with their parents, the students cannot excel in higher achievement.

The successful schools of the 21st century will be those which utilize their most valuable asset--PARENTS--in a truly positive and helpful PARTNERSHIP

The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) has been one of the first national educational organizations to realize this asset of parental partnership. They are pioneering the NEW REFORM in education-- PARENT/SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP

Dr. Paul Houston, AASA Executive Director has laid out in clear language what it will take to fully prepare our students for fulfilling their dreams for a bright future.

Dr. Houston said, in a recent speech, "for schools to succeed, it's BACK-TO-THE-FUTURE!" He made it clear he meant back to the basic academic curriculum, enhanced by a new respect for the latest teaching technology and functional progress to assure parental participation. U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley said, "The American family is the rock on which a solid education can and must be built."

Upon these simple but profound statements of proven truth, Mr. Riley and Dr. Houston are blazing the way for the only REFORM that can produce a world-class education for all American students. Our own "PARENT/STUDENT HIGH ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERSHIP" program for our district schools must succeed.

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