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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I've heard from my friends who lived in S. Arlington was that there is only so much that the PTA can do when many of the parents just aren't involved with their child's education. I do think the reasons are legit, but it would be much better if you volunteered  your time vs. giving $. [/quote]

+1. A few months ago during a different PTA discussion, I read a year's worth of meeting minutes from a SA PTA (I'm not going to say which one, that's not the point), and one thing that was striking was how often I'd see a call for volunteers for a particular event or program, and the next month would see an update that it was being run by the same PTA officer would ran 17 other programs as well. There's only so much one person can do, so I imagine a lot of those programs weren't getting nearly the time and attention they could have used to really develop well. NA PTAs bring in a lot of money, but they're also able to do a lot with that money because they use volunteer power to stretch it further. $500 to create an in-class art enrichment program is pointless if you can't get a couple of volunteers per grade level to go into classrooms for an hour once a month to show kids some pictures of paintings by Van Gogh or Warhol and then let them create their own piece of art in the same style.[/quote]

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