At one wall, adapted to teach children the rudiments of rock climbing, anxious parents watch as their valiant 8-year-olds inch their way up wearing helmets and safety harnesses.
With the mercury climbing, many parents will likely be desperate for some air-conditioned entertainment.
While still below the district average, test scores have climbed and parents say that their children have been engaged in schoolwork now more than ever and that all the school needs is more time.
Children climbed on parents' shoulders and onlookers hung out of nearby windows.
And yet, even though the ante keeps climbing due to parents' incessant concern over looking cheap or ungrateful in the eyes of other parents, I've often wondered whether or not our good intentions or competitive spirit are all in vain or, at least, fraught with error.
After ten minutes, some of the children were still listening, but others had fallen victim to waning attention spans and were wandering around, climbing on their parents' laps, or asking to use iPads.
As barefoot children hold their hands out for donated food and water, pupils from the adjacent school pour into the streets, climbing into their parents' cars with book bags and uniforms.
While they were jumping and running and shouting, she was reflective, empathic with the story characters and climbing on her parents.
Rousseau's work may never recover its original, wacky tang after generations of culture-climbing parents have seized on it, desperately, to interest their restless progeny in something, anything, modernly arty.
He was nearly a decade her senior, the cosseted, overprotected son of zealously religious, social-climbing parents; he was scholarly and socially awkward, and like so many Victorians — Lewis Carroll, most famously — he was obsessed with prepubescent girls.
