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[quote=Anonymous]Many of you who are at top charters and WOTP schools have very involved PTAs, but most of the rest of us have little involvement, often none, from all but a few parents.  I sometimes think - how can the PTA be only X parents if there are 400-500 students in my children's school?

Does anyone know of any resources or ideas or anything that could actually bring apathetic parents into the PTA at schools with anemic PTA organizations?  Not just whole websites like ptotoday - something more concrete, like call this many people, have signs up in homerooms, etc.

I just look at this problem like, many many people have dealt with this problem since the dawn of time (or even the 21st Century, but whatever) and think - why am I/are we stuck reinventing the wheel on this?

And if it's been done before, why are there not efforts to get things moving at like 50 or more DCPS schools with practically no parent organization?

So, please don't bemoan, belittle or tell me to read a generic website.  I want to get started without reinventing the wheel.  Like today.[/quote]

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