But these children do best at an age when parents still organize their social lives and before having a one-on-one school aide becomes embarrassing.
The parents do not back the principal but organize an alternative prom because "we owe them something."
The parents are organizing their own group to help the teachers.
Disappointed parents organized a social media effort to bring back the characters.
More than 200 schools in the district were put on alert, and parents organized street patrols.
Black parents organized to raise the money and donated land and labor to build the schools for their children.
Since last year, the parents have organized workshops on leadership development and parental involvement.
The parents are organizing to demand that the school administration be held accountable for allowing the incident to occur, they said.
The parents have also organized teams of volunteer divers to help in the search.
