Seattle Schools Community Forum

Want a fully funded education for Washington's children? Make a postcard    Your response to the  survey    will be printed into a postcard, and these will be hand delivered to your Washington State Legislators (your Senator and 2 Representatives) plus Governor Inslee on ​Washington State PTA Focus Day on January 19th in Olympia.   This is the last chance-the deadline for filling out the survey is Monday January 13 th at 10 p.m. so please take a few moments now to fill out the  survey Going to Focus Day on January 19th?  Find out more and register   here   Don't feel like driving?  Ride the bus.  Round trip tickets are $10/adult and $5/kids.  Bus will leave from both the Green Lake and Airport Way park and rides.  Buy your bus tickets here   Want to meet with your legislators?  RSVP to your Focus Day legislative...

I have been a PTA parent.  I have served on Boards in nearly every postion and, I was co-president of a PTA at a large high school.  I've been to Legislative Assembly and conventions.  I have seen, firsthand, many, many hard-working parents - at several schools - and heard amazing stories of effort at others.  (Sad to say, not every school has a vibrant PTA.) But, just like the seeming disconnect between our schools and our district headquarters, there seems to be an ever-growing disconnect between school PTAs and their needs and our city/state/national PTAs' goals. What has always troubled me is that local PTA leaders are always there for the meetings with the Superintendents or Mayor or other officials.  They rise to endorse Board agendas for work at the Legislature.  All this is great but it's high-level.  It feels like the city/state/national operates at that 10,000 foot level and yet, there are real concerns at the district and school level ...