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| Frost Email; Desperate Help Needed by Frost PTSA! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 16 2012, 12:14 AM (1,013 Views) | |
| Retired | Apr 16 2012, 12:14 AM Post #1 |
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Email from our school today...... Desperate Help Needed by Frost PTSA! I am contacting you because you have shown a willingness to help Frost PTSA in the past and we really need your help! WE CANNOT HAVE A PTSA NEXT YEAR WITHOUT ELECTING OFFICERS! To do this we need one or two people to make some phone calls and send out some emails! We are still looking for one or two people who would be willing to make some phone calls and send out some emails regarding Frost PTSA officer positions for next year. A list will be provided of who to contact and what to say. YOU WOULD NOT BE EXPECTED OR ASKED TO RUN FOR AN OFFICER POSITION. This is an easy way to help out, current 7th or 8th grade parents can do it, and it can all be done from home. You would contact current Frost committee chairs (16 people) and ask if they are interested in taking on a leadership role and running for an elected position. You would also contact Johnson, Webster, Cooper, and Riley asking them to post in their newsletter or send out an email blast announcing that we are looking for people who are interested in running for an executive board position at Frost next year. Lastly you would confirm that the people that have expressed an interest in running for an officer position want their name on the ballot. Please contact Janine Mueller at 734-462-1244 or jmmquilts@sbcglobal.net ASAP if you are able to help out! Thank You! |
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| Purple Haze | Apr 16 2012, 08:24 AM Post #2 |
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I have not supported the LPTSA since they refused to discuss the "new and improved" Legacy Initiative over five years ago. |
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| Justasking | Apr 16 2012, 08:30 AM Post #3 |
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Retired, It would be a nice gesture if you removed her contact info from the posting. Lots of Bots harvest info from web pages. You don't want her getting harassed out of this. |
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| DADDYOH10 | Apr 16 2012, 12:14 PM Post #4 |
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The PTSA does not not support and will not sign charters for Girl and Boy Scouts (Cub Scouts especially). Supreme Court ruling from a few years ago that did not go their way. They are politically biased, very "clicky", exclusionary, and highly relied on by staff to provide fund raising (never ending) for the schools and teachers (sometimes personally). Frost is now in our rear view mirror, grade wise, and there are a lot of willing out there ...aren't there??? WHY NOT? Where is all that "parental invovement" and the need for it? Where are the parents of those hundreds of students enrolled there? |
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| Purple Haze | Apr 16 2012, 12:47 PM Post #5 |
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probably they are working (or are actively seeking work, in my case) to keep their houses, pay their taxes and merely exist on lower wages and higher health insurance co-payments... how about you? |
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| Justasking | Apr 16 2012, 02:41 PM Post #6 |
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I don't want to turn this into a "bash the PTA" thread, but DaddyO hit the nail on the head. My wife and I volunteered a few times for PTA events after they "begged for any help you can give". We found that they didn't want help from parents, they wanted mindless slaves. They asked us to perform a task, and if we didn't do it EXACTLY the way the micro-managing PTA boss had done it in the past, we were made to feel like we failed and asked to do it again. We tried a few different events, to see if maybe it was just a bad experience, but it seemed that way at all of them. The few people in charge want to be IN CHARGE of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE. That wasn't fun for us, so we quit volunteering. Went to a new LPS School and the vibe was totally different. They actually want help and embrace you for being there. We still help there, but they don't need as much, as the kids are older. |
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| DADDYOH10 | Apr 16 2012, 07:52 PM Post #7 |
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And you probably thought they (PTSA) was a "mom & pop", "nickle-dime" kinda thing.....WRONG! having spent time with the "inner circle" at a former K - 6 PTSA and saw a yearly budget closing in on $30,000.00...it is no wonder it is a tight circle in some places. I have volunteered for many things in many positions over the years, from running a National Convention for a Catholic organization, Cub scouts, Boy scouts, Mother-Son Bowling events (two years, inaugural organization), helped pack @ World Medical Relief, and been an active participant in ATL (Aid to Lithuania), besides umpiring for the city of Livonia for for 7 or 8 years, and organizing a regional tournament, for the deaf and speech impeded National League...getting umpires to work with the teams to implement the slow pitch tourney....but I never saw nothing like what went on in the PTSA! Enough bashing... taxes to get done, and legislative digging to do... |
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| Momof4 | Apr 17 2012, 04:12 PM Post #8 |
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I, too, found that the PTA at the K-6 schools my kids attended were very cliquey. Then after the K-4 configuration took place, it was worse. The same women just moved up the grades as their kids did - I have great respect for their volunteering, but the exclusiveness of the "club" was off-putting. I just was not treated very well... at the private school one of my kids attends, it is not the case with their version of PTA... sadly, in all the schools, I worry about the parent cliques. I hope that Frost finds people who can "clean house" of the old regime and start fresh with a welcoming attitude. Edited by Momof4, Apr 17 2012, 04:15 PM.
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| DADDYOH10 | Apr 18 2012, 06:43 AM Post #9 |
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Trouble is seniority and the "good ole' boy system" is sstill part of the equation and it is somewhat self-perpetuating. |
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| LPSisPoor | Apr 18 2012, 02:36 PM Post #10 |
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Call Lynda or Rob, they have free time and they love the PTA's. |
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| Purple Haze | Apr 18 2012, 05:10 PM Post #11 |
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if memory serves, Lynda is STILL on the LPTSA executive board! |
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| DADDYOH10 | Apr 19 2012, 06:37 PM Post #12 |
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Don't you love it???***!!! Why it is some people love to keep their foot in the door, even though it has been bruised and or broken. It is a bad habit I guess. |
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