Below is just one of many success stories from the Parent Institute of Quality Education:

Sanger High Graduation Tuesday November 9th 2010
Parent Speaker - Mrs. Sylvia Lovett

Good evening fellow PIQE graduates, Sanger high school personal and PIQE administrators, family members and future college graduates.

Benjamin Franklin once said, “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”. Every single parent here tonight should be proud! Because for the past nine weeks that is exactly what we have been doing, investing and investing in knowledge that will benefit our best interest, our kids.

Some of us came here knowing exactly what PIQE was and for some of us PIQE was a new experience, a newadventure in our kid’s education. What I didn’t know was that PIQE not only benefits my junior high student, but it’s also helping my 5 and 3 year old. Imagine that, PIQEan investment in knowledge for my two toddlers. The advantage for them is huge. I now have the additional tools to start them off on the right track for their entire 12 years of school here at Sanger Unified.

PIQE has given us the basic information to understand the high school system such as: CAHSEE, the A-G requirements, CELDT and CST testing. They have reminded us of the importance of our student’s GPA and have educated us on the difference between AP and Honor courses. PIQE has emphasized the importance of knowing how to read our students transcripts and they finally explained to me that PSAT and PLAN are practice test for taking the SAT and ACT. In the final two weeks we learned about the CCC California Community Colleges, CSU California State Universities, UC’s University of California and also about financial aid, like grants and loans.
So what is PIQE to me? If I had to summarize PIQE in one word it would be, empowerment. Empowermentto know what classes our kids should be taking, empowerment to know that deadlines are crucial. Empowerment to keep track of their GPA, empowerment to help them succeed in taking the SAT and the ACT.Empowerment to communicate with their counselor regularly and empowerment to talk to our kids about the future today.

At this time I would like to address my daughter Alex Lovett. As you well know I didn’t finish up at Fresno State. Life just kind of happened and I quit after obtaining only my 2 year degree. My desire for you is that you gain the empowerment to do what I couldn’t do, to graduate from college.

I also have a question for you? Do you remember when we took the training wheels off your bike and we went across the street to Sanger Academy? Remember how you kept wobbling and tipping over and when you fell of the curb I grabbed you by your ponytail? That’s how high school and college will be. You will wobble, you will stumble and you will fall and although you may not wear ponytails anymore, I will always be there to help you get up.
Congratulations to everyone here and thank you Sanger high and PIQE for a wonderful opportunity. I end with the words of Winston Churchill, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts”.

Good luck to all of you and good night.