Otha Thornton is the PTA’s first male African-American president. As a former lieutenant colonel in the Army, he said that discipline -- and his own struggles growing up -- help him relate to today’s most at-risk kids. NBC’s Gabe Gutierrez reports.Oct. 9, 2013
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