Why PTA?

Why join PTA?  Do you have an answer to this question?  If not, take the time to decide why you think joining PTA is important – be ready, someone will ask you that very question.  Encourage every member of your PTA Board to also have an answer.  Let’s look at what PTA offers:

• PTA provides an opportunity for involvement by parents, teachers, students, and the community.
• PTA is a resource for issues concerning our children.
• PTA provides timely information from local, State and Federal levels and how we can advocate and influence legislators on behalf of children, families and schools.
• PTA contributes a positive attitude to ensure the best possible education for our children.
• PTA provides a forum for discussion of topics of general concern between school, home and the community.
• PTA offers resources available from the State and National PTA to help the local units and its members.
• PTA is the only organization whose sole focus is the education, health and safety of our children during their educational years.

PTA should be a positive link between school and home.  We should be offering the opportunity for involvement in issues concerning our children.  Anyone can be a PTA member and when those member’s decisions are guided by a sense of responsibility for all children as well as their own then we all truly become advocates for our future -- our children.

“Why PTA?” Postcard