A cooperative is a school who is owned by the parents. Everyone who enrolls their children in our school each year become equal owners in our school. So every year I have a whole new set of bosses. And they come into the school as equal partners, in a democratic way. We make all of our decisions through a process of discussion. We meet once a month. We hash through all the issues and everything we have to decide. Parents are expected to work in the classroom one morning a week as my assistant teacher. So not only are they my bosses but then I am their supervisor. So it becomes this incredible dynamic where we're all in this together, truly. It is not a boss/employee relationship, but it truly is a partnership which is what progressive education is all about in the first place. In addition to working in the classroom one day a week each parent, these parents also perform all the other tasks within the school, from administrative work to janitorial work; everything else that makes the school operate other than what I do as the teacher. So it allows the parent to have real direct hands-on influence on the kind of education their child is getting. They also get to see how the child learns and to, it becomes a great basis for the rest of their child's education, so they can really understand what their child needs in order to learn what they need to learn in their education.