I was President once and I had someone DJ and had a big turnout because I advertised so to speak by sending home flyers atleast 2 times before a meeting. Then I always served refreshments and had door prizes. As well, I sent home a survey in September asking what can we do to get you to come out and you would be surprised how brown bag dinners, incentives got them out.
No more of just coming out to be informed no no you have to have BAIT nowadays!
Our meetings have little turn out, so we started having each grade do a program that night. It is a way for the parents to see there kids sing or whatever the program is and we get more at the meetings. The bad thing is that we do the program 1st and most of the parents get up during the meeting and leave. So once they are there they don not have the interest to stay. We can get a cafeteria full of people but for the business meeting we have less then an 1/4 of them stay. For some reason the principle will not let us do the business first and then do the program. The other down side is that we only have parents from that grade there. We have 750 students and at the last meeting we had 3 that were not from the 5th grade, and only had about 10 parents who stuck around for the business.
I have a great challenge ahead of me. We would like greater attendance and involvement at our meetings, however, I need ideas on how to get more people to attend.
Several people have voiced their opinions that the meetings are boring and would like to have fun. What do you do at your meetings? Do you have topics, speakers, events???
