Parent Trigger R.I.P.
Today, The Los Angeles Times published an editorial reflecting on the parent trigger’s lack of success, and described Parent Revolution’s retooling effort:
Instead of choosing the schools for a possible parent trigger and engineering the petitions, Parent Revolution now leaves it up to parents to determine whether they want to initiate major reforms and what kind.
The article charitably describes the organization’s success at this new strategy as “modest.”
Of course, this “new” strategy is the primary strategy used by all effective community organizers in modern times, and by successful organizers in history before the term was even coined.
If the Parent Revolution had begun its efforts with that perspective, had chosen not to demonize teachers and