As PTA Groups Move Online, So Does Dissension (WaPo):
Battles for the control of an e-mail list -- judging who may post, what may be said and with how much candor -- have raged at schools across the region, particularly in communities with large numbers of inquisitive parents and wireless Internet hot spots. Parents face off against one another or against school administrators, some of whom view e-mail lists as rumor mills on steroids.Look, you're not going to get much out of me that sounds objective when it comes to PTSAs/PTAs/PTOs. I cannot stand them. I don't know if they ever served a purpose, to be completely honest with you, except to feed the self-serving egos of parents that had nothing better to do than harp on the fact that they're "there" for their children. There's so much self-importance here that I think they're pretty ineffective anyway (at least at the level I'm at) and seriously, show me a faculty member that willing joins one of these.
Of course, it's not about the teacher or students in a PTSA, it's about the parents and always about the parents. Especially in Montgomery County (which, surprise, surprise). One commenter had this to say ...
I'm new to MCPS and I think there are a number of nutty parents here. We lived in another city and people there were much less uptight and competitive. Some of these parents need to get a life.
Preaching to the choir.
In the great overhaul of our public school system that clearly needs to be done, this definitely is something that has to change. I'm not saying that parents shouldn't get involved, but what's the reason for a PTA? To bake cookies and patronize the faculty? To bitch about unimportant, minute things in administrative policies (oh wait, that's what we do at faculty meetings--my bad)?
But seriously, show me something that a PTA or PTO does that actually benefits a school instead of feeding egos of people who sadly, have nothing better to do.
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