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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my kids' schools most PTA mtgs are a waste of time because they are not set up to be a discussion on a topic; they're just reading out stuff that could be communicated via email. "Here's what we raised from x fundraiser; next month we have a spirit night at y restaurant." The leads just provide short updates but it's not "let's have a discussion on a given topic to get parent feedback".

I would LOVE to attend the latter and would even get a sitter for meetings like that. But i've given up going to the "report out" meetings. They are not a good use of time. [/quote]

This is how ours were at the elementary level as well.  I did serve as recording secretary for 2 years, so I know that the minutes were always posted on the pta website.  My particular school PTA wasn't into using FB even though I tried.  They were effective at getting volunteers for events though and lots of committee meetings happened via email conversations.

As it was, the meetings often went 2 hours.  I know personally, that whenever I saw a parent come in who wasn't on the Board, I thought, "Oh great, it's going to be a 3 hour meeting."  Rarely if ever did people come just to listen / learn about what was planned -- they came to bitch about something or make a pitch for an event that they wanted to do.[/quote]

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