Everyone wants more engaged citizens; they make neighborhoods, cities … and schools … work better. But citizen engagement is like gardening. You have to tend it day-in and day-out to see its benefits. What happens if you don’t? You get a once-hopeful, now failed effort, like the “cluster councils” of the S.D. school district. https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/05/06/san-diego-unified-created-a-system-to-empower-parents-its-unraveled/ #volunteerism