Parents also serve on districtwide advisory councils, are members of the booster clubs and sponsors of the middle and high school grade classes. Foster grandparents work in both elementary schools and in the day care center at Twin Buttes High School. They provide class presentations, small group activities, individual tutoring, spelling and math drill, reading, etc. For the third year, parents volunteer as crossing guards on the main highway next to the school. During the 1997-98 school year, DYE initiated and implemented a Parent Scholar Program.
Parents receive training in various aspects of tutoring, classroom discipline and curricula.
Following several observations after the training, they work in the different classrooms. This program has been very successful for both students and teachers. Parents also provide additional support to children whose parents do not participate in school activities very often. DYE also has Active Parenting classes and has two parent work nights a year. In 1997, ZMS was awarded one of four grants from the New Mexico Department of Health Behavioral Health Services Division.