Yes, its unreal he would want to put that pressure on any one teacher. None of the teachers at the meeting wanted to be locked in for a year, they talked of rotation. I was to go in as secretary so our president was very upset when this announcement was made. The principal is just telling us what he would like to see, he is not in on writing the bylaws and we were planning on adding the position of a teacher liaison type of thing. He got this idea from another local schools bylaws and that is what they have written.
In all it is our decision, I/our bylaw committee would like to hear from other people on how they would feel on this situation.
Are you saying she wants this position to be filled ONLY by a teacher or an additional position added to the Board? What if a parent wants fill the office? We have a Teacher Liaison position, she submits teacher questions/requests and reports back to them. Has your Principal said WHY she wants a teacher to fill this position? I'd be curious to find out if any teacher would actually want to do this.
I know you don't want to alienate the Principal, but in the end, if the PTO writes the bylaws, isn't the decision yours?
After a rocky year, our old parent committee disbaned last month. The remaining parents have decided to form a PTO. We are in the midst of writing the bylaws.
Our principal feels strongly about having a teacher on the executive board as secretary.
Has anyone ever heard of this? I and other parents feel it puts too much responsiblity on our already overworked teaching staff. What about having a teacher as part of the executive committee, but having the title being executive teacher liasion? We love the fact that are teachers are now coming to the meeting and want to know what we are doing but feel its too much to ask of them.
