This program is taking off. Just as fast as we hire teachers, we are putting them into the program. In exchange for the free classes, participants sign a weekly pledge of hours they will spend helping children with reading and other homework. Eventually, district officials hope every school will be on board. For now, classes also are available at neighborhood locations, such as community parks and housing developments.
Classes range in frequency from weekly to daily.
Each is packed with reading, practicing casual conversation, learning vocabulary words and learning tutoring techniques that parents and other participants can use to help schoolchildren. But the response sounded more like jumbled cocktail-party conversation. There was much work to do. Your kids don't give up, so you don't either. When the adults stumbled over pronouncing the letters G and J, Dacles reassured them that they were not alone.