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“Andy Hinds, a parent who lives in North Park, remembers taking his children to the playground when they were babies. He recalls how none of the parents he met considered Jefferson, their neighborhood school, fit for their kids.

But he also realized something else: None of those people had actually visited the school. When Hinds toured Jefferson, he found an energetic principal and teachers who seemed to actually enjoywhat they were doing. He walked into classrooms and saw young students locked onto the teacher’s message, hanging on her words.

“I know how tough it is to keep kids’ attention. And what the teachers were doing looked like magic,” he said.

He thought: There’s no reason Jefferson can’t do the same thing McKinley did.

Indeed, Jefferson has a lot of the same things going for it that McKinley had. The neighborhood surrounding the school has a growing number of affluent parents. Jefferson is also an IB school, so it has a rigorous curriculum to offer. And it has an engaging principal who reaches out to parents and lets them know they have a role to play.”

Read the whole article at Voice of San Diego