1.   Mitchell said last week as she led her group of pupils and parent volunteers along the native plants trail.

2.   And parent volunteers are daily fixtures at Montague, says Vista volunteer coordinator Nina Nelson.

3.   But her workload, and that of thousands of other parent volunteers, is about to change.

4.   Classes are small, and parent volunteers provide support for the nine teachers.

5.   Felipe Kelly, a parent volunteer whose children no longer attend Mott, stopped by the school anyway.

6.   For now she is content with being a parent volunteer at school, tutoring children after school and helping other mothers.

7.   In the Model A program, instructors teach entirely in English and parent volunteers or teaching aides help children in their native language.

8.   Jim Oakley was a Civil War buff, so he was happy to be a parent volunteer when one of his daughters went on a class trip to Gettysburg.

9.   Parent volunteers like Huck Huckaby are delighted to pay their way here.

10.   Parent volunteers now roam the hallways.