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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PTA President here at a middle school with a FARMS rate of over 55% and parent engagement is very little (despite the PTA trying). We have a small budget, are overworked (all officers have full-time jobs), and we have a small membership. Two miles away is another MS which has an entirely opposite profile- teachers have a $150 stipend, PTA budget over $25K, totally engaged parent community with a lot of volunteers. It's the classic story of the Haves vs the Have-Nots. I would love to see a PTA organization at a pre-defined regional level where a good amount of the funds raised are split evenly across the schools within the same region.  Notice I didn't say cluster level since even amongst the clusters, SES can still be very segregated. [/quote]

I think if you want everything to be equal then that should be the county’s job and not PTA’s. What would be the role of a PTA?[/quote]

As I suggested, the MCCPTA (county level) can rethink how PTAs are organized today. The role of the PTA is to support their schools which is absolutely still needed. The issue is, because of the way our school assignments are done, some schools don't have that support system at all. Do you know that some schools don't even have a PTA?[/quote]

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