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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who is "they" in this description?

The PTA is the entire body of parents and teachers.

So, who is "they" -- the executive board?
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In our school, only a minority of parents are members of the PTA, and complaints are mostly directed at a core of insensitive parents who control the executive board.

In theory, re-electing new, more rational members should be the easy solution. However, like any democracy gone wrong, a significant portion of the parent population is somewhat transient and/or culturally not PTA-focused (military hospital families, international families, etc). For a few families, there is also a language barrier, which is not as big of an issue as the cultural one or the fact that in two years some will return to their home country or elsewhere. 
The PTA's core of long-timers (who are all part of the same somewhat privileged social circle and go to the same synagogue) also makes the positions very unglamorous and the process forbidding, so the more stable families don't want the jobs anyway.

Get the picture?

that is sad.  The PTA is for the kids not the school or the parents.  100% membership is a huge goal of my school each year.  So far so good.

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