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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate our PTA members for all that they do, like pp above. 
If these other voices want to be heard, they need to attend the meetings and volunteer for things in order to be 'represented' at the PTA. [b]I just don't buy the statement that six grown adults drown out any other voices. Speak up.[/b] Don't sit on the sidelines and complain you aren't represented. [/quote]

Well, in just one example...   A new policy was announced by the board and the PTA decided to organize a meeting to discuss it point by point mainly over a list serve.  I expressed my opinion of one of the points of the proposal which differed greatly from the organizer of the meeting who was the head of one of the PTA committees and in the end we decided it would get addressed at the meeting.  During the meeting said organizer essentially skipped over that issue by making a comment that "we don't care about that issue" and just moved on with what she wanted to discuss.  I tried to bring the issue to the floor anyway and she gave me the death stare and stated that we had more important things to discuss.  At that point we could've had a full blown smack down but decided against making a scene.[/quote]

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