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[quote=Anonymous]I am  former PTA office holder mom whose kid was going to a bottom of the heap MCPS school pyramid. My DH was so done with my moaning and groaning that he suggested that either we move to a W-school or I get involved in that school and make a change. My playbook came from the W-schools foundations and PTA websites. At a fraction of funds of what these schools have, I was able to replicate most of these offerings at our school. I am a-ok with the W-schools being well funded by the pta and foundations, because they have some great solutions that all of us can learn to modify and make it our own.

Yes, they are putting in their money to get extras, and there is no one stopping parents like me to use our ingenuity and ability to become great copycats  and get the same for our own kids in non-W schools.  BTW - in the process of helping my kid, I was easily able to help the entire school community.  Was it sustained after I left? No. Mainly the administration does its best to scuttle the attempts of any parent who wants to do things on their own. As a parent, your best protection and power is to be under the umbrella of PTA. As a PTA parent, you can really get programs at school for students. All students. Even the FARMs and ESOL kids.  Do you need parental participation? Yes, but only a few parents. You can do with minimal participation of parents in the PTA, but you need to create opportunities for parents to participate in things that they care about without being PTA members.

We were able to have great teacher appreciation events - breakfast, lunches, coffee bars, snack bars, fresh fruits, snack packs  and made sure that they had a ton of classroom supplies, media center supplies, parent volunteers - every thing we needed was provided for free by parents. Majority of whom did not join the PTA or even attended one PTA meeting.  You need to know your audience. Parents don't want to join the PTA. They want to help their own child's classroom, their own classroom teachers, the EC activity that their child is interested in.

Yes, some want the acknowledgement of being on Honor Roll too, and it is easy for us to get those parents involved in running those events.  They just did not want to be in the PTA and I was ok with it.

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