We have those indicators that kids are buying into the magnet school concept and that parents are supporting the magnet school concept.

When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.

Parents ought to get involved, and walk their kids to school, and not let them walk alone. There were some concerned parents at a PTA meeting in Northeast El Paso (Wednesday night), but we told them that their kids are safe at school. The campuses are still the safest place for them.

The key question (for parents) is whether kids are doing better in regular school as a result of the services.

Those junior high students were as interested as the elementary school kids. I think it was the first time a lot of them had seen these animals too.

Most kids are vaccinated for mumps but some have declined because it wasn't around and those parents had better hurry to their pediatrician and get the mumps vaccination.