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What on earth do you expect PTAC to do regarding an active homicide investigation that the local police department is handling? Your concerns are misplaced on a group of parents who cannot possibly prevent or address this type of violence (likely a targeted incident).

Not the PP but since PTAC portrays itself as concerned with safety they could make a statement/discuss actual safety issues in the schools. Although I'm not critical of them for staying silent about this murder because it didn't happen on school grounds or didn't spill out of a school into Bradlee the way it does when school is in session. But they absolutely should address the violence in the schools. They choose not to.

The fact that as a group they never said a word about the Minnie Howard fights and Minnie Howard rape is callous though. It's just like their refusal to offer any constructive criticism to ACPS when the schools were shut down. It's what frustrates parents and makes PTAC and the clique that runs it and has been running it for years such a joke.[/quote]

Agreed that they are not a great organization.  But is it common for PTAs to do much about violence in the schools?  The reason that I ask is that there was a fair amount of violence in my much younger sister's school in Chicago, and my mom says she cannot recall the PTA doing much.  So that makes me wonder if this is typical awfulness, or ACPS specific awfulness.[/quote]

Right.  Seems way beyond the scope of a PTA’s function.  The expectations people have for PTAC on this board are outrageous.  I’ve seen them do some fundraisers and outreach to West End schools, much more traditional PTA stuff.  Do people in other jurisdictions expect their PTAs to get involved in every single controversial school issue?  I don’t think so![/quote]

I think the real problem with PTAC is that they run interference for ACPS.  If PTAC just said nothing, then there would be less hatred for them.  The problem is PTAC does things like praising ACPS’s administration handling of the pandemic (ie zoom school) when vast numbers of ACPS students weren’t learning and suffering negative mental health consequences.[/quote]

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