Once they got to the school, the staff there "informed me there was a waiting list, so I said, 'Well, I'd like to put her name on the waiting list,'" Bonnie Johnson said. "And at that time, the secretary said that Steve [Perry] was in the conference room, and why didn't I go in there and have a conversation with him, and see if maybe we could get her in without having her be on the waiting list."