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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, as a Board Member, there's no value in joining the PTA. Can't believe I'm saying this but it's true. You do not have to be a PTA member to volunteer, donate, participate in fundraisers, attend PTA events, attend PTA meetings, advocate for students and the school, etc. If a PTA directory is valuable for your family and if "voting" for whatever there is to vote for is important to you, then sure. If given a choice, I'd rather that families donate directly to the PTA instead of purchasing a membership. The reason I say this is that we have to pay MCCPTA and state membership dues (close to $5) for each member. We're at a low-income school and if I'm charging $10 for a membership, I have to give up 50% of that. I'd rather that parents volunteer and directly donate to us so that 100% of those donations go back directly to the school. Yup, in some ways, I hate the MCCPTA.    [/quote]

+1, but even if you are on the board and have voting power, it rarely helps if you don't' agree and others go along with the president to make her happy.  I cannot figure out what MCCPTA did with all the money.  MDPTA was a disaster.  I learned the hard way.  Now I'll buy/do directly for the school.[/quote]

Yes. That's the way to go. A local PTA just needs 25 members. Once we hit that number, who cares. Of course MCCPTA doesn't want us to say that but in my years being on the PTA board, I'm still struggling to figure out what are the advantages of joining. Of course, if someone wants to be on the BOard,  there are good things that come with that (meeting people, learning more about what's going on at the school, county level, advocacy, etc.) but being just a member gets you nothing more than a directory. [/quote]

Our ES would take six months to get the directory out and school would almost be over.  In MS and HS no directory.  So, really no benefit. Our school does minimal teacher appreciation and a few teacher grants and that is it.   [/quote]

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