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[quote=Anonymous]We're struggling with this in our PTA now.  I'm a dues paying member and attend meetings/volunteer when I can but like the PPs, our PTA is very cliquish and down right unwelcoming to newcomers.  In fact, I'm the only one who will greet people walking into the meeting room.  I've been able to break into the group only because I'm an extrovert.  There are a core group of PTA people who volunteer but that's because they're so disorganized and don't let people know what needs to be done - until it's too late.  Or, they ignore you altogether.  There have been at least two people volunteer to update the PTA website but they can't get the website password to do it.  The officers listed have been out of office for over a year!

I also agree with the PP with SN kids that they're treated as outliers and the PTA doesn't care about them.  There are 10 special needs preschool classes at our school and there's no outreach to their parents at all (this is the school SN kids throughout the cluster attend).  There's also very little outreach to the Spanish speaking community other than translating the PTA notices into Spanish.  They dismiss them as not being interested or they don't understand what PTA since they don't have them wherever they're from.  There are plenty of parents volunteering in classrooms that have just given up on PTA and I don't blame them.[/quote]

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