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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are two types of PTA meetings, and both can work well for different purposes.

09:56 advocated for an executive meeting - that's where business is discussed, reports are heard, budgets approved, new business handled.  You don't care if 100 people come or just the leadership of the PTA.

Everyone else is advocating for information sessions.  These are planned meetings with outside speakers, designed to do a couple of things: 1) inform parents of an issue; 2) attract parents to "PTA meetings" with the hope that new parents will get more involved in the business of the PTA; 3) demonstrate to parents that the PTA is organizing things that matter to parents; etc.

I think a good PTA balances both types of meetings.  The executive type meeting isn't of interest to a large number of parents - they like knowing people are working on the PTA stuff but don't care about the ins and outs.

If you combine the two meetings, you often don't have enough time to do the executive one well and you bore people who hate those kinds of in the details meetings.  [/quote]

The problem with never doing executive meetings is that parents then start to not understand what the PTA does. Also, I think volunteerism dies down because people think everything is already covered. Our school has a light executive meeting prior to a presentation plus gets a copy of the meeting minutes from the previous month where a longer executive meeting was held, so this way, they get to hear a topic and get to see the new business discussed over two months.[/quote]

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