Reply to South Arlington & PTAs

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "South Arlington & PTAs"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Manpower matters a lot. There are a lot of grants available through National PTA, for instance, but to be eligible you have to have at least a certain number of volunteers to run the sponsored event/program. If parents aren't willing to help, it's a lot of missed opportunities.[/quote]

The stereotype is that NA has a lot of SAHM who provide the core labor for PTAs, and there aren't many SAHM in SA. Is there truth to it?[/quote]

In our NA PTA, there are plenty of SAHP volunteers but there are also a lot of people who volunteer in addition to working. Only one member of our PTA board is a SAHP, the rest all work, most of them full-time.[/quote]

I think that must be a big part of it. I've lived in SA for 6 years and in that time I've met dozens of parents, but I have yet to meet a SAHP or hear of a spouse or partner who is one. [/quote]

So we're ignoring where pp said most of the board is working parents rather than sah parents? Guess that doesn't fit the agenda...[/quote]

No, you're ignoring that the pp said there were "plenty of sahp volunteers" and "most of the pta board" works "full time". It's perfectly obvious that the PP's PTA benefits greatly from the labor of people who aren't otherwise occupied with a 40 or 50 hour a week job plus commuting time and who thus have the time to plan and staff activities.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics