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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Np here who was involved in a high-FARMs school’s PTA. 
I want to correct the notion that these PTAs are struggling because the families are poor. To be sure, the families don’t have huge amounts of disposable income to donate to their local PTA, but that isn’t the root of the matter, IMO.

Many kids in these schools have parents who weren’t born in the US, and did not have anything like a PTA in their own childhood. (My friend whose parents were immigrant engineers —and heavily invested in their kids’ academic success—said that this was the case for her parents back in the 70s, too.) The PTAs (including local and state/national) also do very little, if anything, to explain to these new-American families why the PTA is something they should care about or join. It’s an American “institution”, if you will, which is why US-raised parents join their PTAs when their kids start school.
So PTAs suffer from a lack of buy-in/membership. [/quote]

What you need to do is have some activities that would be of interest, that requires PTA membership to participate.  
For example, if these foreign families are Asian, have a math club/MOEMS or if there is someone willing to put in a lot of work Odyssey of the Mind.  This would be a good fundraiser as well.
Then once you have the memberships, you can advertise more events and people will be more knowledgeable about PTA.[/quote]

Only Asian families care about math? What?[/quote]

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