Parent Empowerment or Parent Manipulation?
Parent Leaders of Parent Trigger at McKinley Elementary School, Marlene Romero, Ismania Guzman, Shamika Murphy / photo from Long Beach Press Telegram
As an educator who keeps up to date with happenings in the education world, it was with great interest that I followed the developments in Compton, CA where the Parent Revolution (run by paid-organizers and funded by billionaires) decided to launch their first Parent Trigger initiative at McKinley Elementary.
California is the first state to enact the so-called parent trigger law that allows the majority of a school’s parents to sign a petition that triggers massive changes to a school’s structure and governance. Ostensibly, this trigger would be pulled if parents had repeatedly tried to affect positive change at a school and were unable to do so for whatever reason. The philosophy behind this law seems to be parent empowerment, parent power. But recent reports in the media have left me to question if parents can truly be empowered when they are not fully informed
