Ingraham's PTA vs PTO Vote (Fleshed Out)
I've gotten way behind on threads and I did want to flesh out the discussion leading to Ingraham High School's decision to leave PTA and have a Parent Teacher Organization. By my count, there were about 60+ people at the meeting. It was a regular PTA meeting so they did their business meeting first. (They did their Golden Acorn awards and I really love hearing these stories about such hard-working and positive people.) The PTA President, Keiki Kehoe, gave some background to the issue saying the PTA had felt increasingly distant from the state PTA. She said that it was a unanimous vote of the Ingraham Board to bring it to the membership for consideration. She spoke of the common bond of all to work for the students, teachers and staff of the school. The PTO side was Rosemary Daszkiewicz. She laid out the issues: - costs of giving money to the state/national PTA. At their school, this is about $2k per year. They feel they need every penny a...