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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But the parents at those schools are welcome to start one if they want one. [b]Because they don’t choose to start one doesn’t mean my school should not be allowed to have one[/b]![/quote]

No one is saying that. What I was simply suggesting was that instead of having an overall MCCPTA (county level) PTA where truthfully they don't accomplish much with the exception of collecting a percentage of everyone's membership fee- why don't we have multiple regional ones that actually take some of that money and distribute it evenly back to all schools that are within their region? We have a PTA at our school and no, it's not booming like the W schools but even I can sympathize for schools that don't have PTAs or have PTAs that struggle to get parent involvement. [/quote]

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