The press finally wakes up to Parent Trigger scam « Parents Across America

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The press finally wakes up to Parent Trigger scam

by CarolineSF

By Caroline Grannan, San Francisco

Parents Across America founding member

The Parent Trigger, an education reform fad that started in California in early 2010 and is now being pushed as a miracle solution around the country, may have finally lost its magic with the mainstream media.

The Feb. 19, 2012, Los Angeles Times ran an article about the latest (of two total) Parent Trigger projects, focusing on charges that the “campaign has divided the campus, destroyed friendships and given rise to charges on both sides of harassment and deceit.”This campaign is at Desert Trails Elementary School in rural Adelanto, Calif.

Though the sky-high likelihood that a Parent Trigger would rip apart a community has been evident all along to anyone with a clue, especially anyone who spends time in schools, the mainstream press has generally been bewitched by this new silver bullet. The Parent