I am curious then, what is the "T" role? Why not just Parent Organization? For all we know, some of the things we do annoy/frustrate the teachers. Maybe some things we could (and would like to) cut out, but don't know because we have no feed back.
It's funny, bucksco -- I just finished off my column for our March issue on this very topic. I even used that "where's the T" line in my opening paragraph, saying something like: "Right about now in the school year is when the "why do we even have a T in our name?" complaints start coming out."
So your message is quite coincidental.
Without giving away my column, I'll just say that I don't feel like it's the teachers job to recruit members or work events or even come to meetings. If they do, great. But I don't think it should be an expectation.
To me, it's one of those concerns -- like "why can't we get parents to come to our meetings" -- that's really common, but misplaced.
I'm sure you'll get other feedback here, just thought I'd start. Look for the column in the March issue, too.
Tonight after our PTO meeting, the officers really expressed thier frustration that we seem to be missing the "T" in PTO. We do a lot for them through the year besides contributing $$ to the classrooms and we can not get help, feedback or attendance at meetings or help finding moms from classrooms who would be willing to help the PTO. We have 1 teacher (our teacher rep) who comes to most meetings. I am currious what teachers from other elementary schools do to be involved. Do they work events, come to meetings, promote the PTO or help recruit members?
