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Why would people want to do that?

[b]By increasing the turn out, what do we achieve?[/b] More money for the PTA? Apparently no. More people willing to volunteer? Maybe, maybe not.

It is the parents' own loss for not attending the meetings, that is how it is supposed to work. If they don't lose anything, of course parents don't care. Why should they? Whoever really care and have ideas to push forward would have already done so.

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More participation, more involvement, more buy-in, more information, more ideas.[/quote]

"More participation, more involvement, more buy-in"? Those provide nothing more than "more participation and more involvement and more buy-in". If you want to look good on the paper, that is an achievement. If you look at real world, that does not do much.

"more information" what information do you need from those parents who do not like to come to PTA meetings? How their kids are doing at home? Or how they want the school to educate their kids?

"more ideas": what we don't need, are more ideas. There are a lot of ideas flying around, nothing really practical. In addition, if the PTA have good ideas, they don't need hundreds of people to tell them how to implement them. If they don't, then they don't.

Overall, it just LOOKS better if more people come to the PTA meeting. In practice, it doesn't matter (as far as school operation is concerned) at all.

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Absolutely. The best PTA has a membership of one. Very efficient.

Wait, what?[/quote]

That sounds stupid, but in reality it is not that stupid.

I can't say what a BEST PTA is, because it is usually hard to define "BEST".

Usually it works out this way: you involve more people to make it harder for the few in power to do bad things.
You involve less people- yet enough manpower -  if you really want to achieve something.

Nowadays, I don't see how a PTA can really do something bad. Whether they can really do something good, maybe, maybe not, but spending the time and energy to involve more people is not going to help much on that.

Of course, again, if you think "involving more parents" itself is some achievement (on paper?), then of course, the PTA should do that.
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I think PTA involvement is about chipping in where you can however big or small way. Volunteering for a single event or coming to a single meeting is a gesture of showing you care about your child’s school environment (both social and academic) even if it’s only for a single event or meeting. High participation creates a positive morale because you see that there are a lot of parents willing to volunteer their time even if it’s a sacrifice for some. It sets a great example for your own children to be involved in the community.[/quote]

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