Once the PTA meetings was for the parents. You know, “What can we do to make the school better?” The teachers would tell them. You know, “We’d like this happen in our classrooms,” but now they’re gone off on psychology and philosophical things. Parents don’t understand what they’re talking about, so they don’t go because the PTA’s in elementary schools used to be packed. They used to be packed in the high schools.

Parents came to find out what was going on and what they could do to help. They built schools like that. The first Jarboesville School was built. It was done by the parents. Children brought bricks. They had a brick contest, and they said some of the students were taking bricks out of their parents’ chimneys [laughter] to build this first Jarboesville High School! Parents and teachers worked together.