turned their homes into make-shift call centers to lobby against the ballot measure. In East Boston, a group of grandmothers cooked dinner every Wednesday night for parent volunteers who worked a phone bank at the home of Kelly Gil Franco, a Boston teacher whose son attends a district elementary school.
hour sessions, they made calls in both English and Spanish. They also had one parent who spoke Arabic. I was lucky to see how supportive the community was, said Gil Franco. We were encouraging people to study multiple perspectives, conduct their own research, and visit their public schools.
