They divided the kids into 12 groups, found 12 parent volunteers willing to come in every week and then coaxed their students into giving up lunch recess to participate. Enter parents like Cyd Stenicki, a fourth-grade mom who leads a group in between selling computers for Sun Microsystems. Husband Mark, who came along to Steele on a recent Friday, fills in when Cyd has to tend to business. They voice strong opinions about a parent's role in education. That doesn't work.
Many Steele parents share that view.
Several, including PTA president Sally Kelly, said they moved to the neighborhood because of Steele. Nearly half of the students here are driven in daily by parents who live in other parts of town. I don't think they would stop at anything. And it shows. That might mean Steele teachers get to take it easy.