Hi there. I'm in my school's PTO. Right now we don't have insurance so I don't want to be an official executive member but I am extremely involved - volunteering, sending out the emails, running the FB page, etc.
Our PTO is a bit disorganized to say the least, mainly from what I understand is because the people who ran it before the new group came in, left without passing off the reigns, so to speak. So everything last year was learned on the fly.
Parental involvement in our school is very low. We have one woman whose son is about graduate that we will lose and we sadly lost another great volunteer who passed away a few weeks away. We have about the same 10 volunteers for every event but it is getting to the point where it is very difficult for us to keep running events when no one else wants to pitch in, or as we all know, gives excuses as to why they can't.
I'm wondering if it would be appropriate to send an email to the PTO and ask them what they would like to see change for next year. I know this school year isn't over yet but for us, it practically is. There isn't much more going on so we might as well look to a brighter next year. I was thinking of asking them what they would like to see done differently, do they have suggestions, etc. I don't intend on saying, 'hey, why did you guys pay dues just to sit there and look at emails I send you' because that might turn them away. lol But maybe there is something that we are doing that is putting people off.
I didn't discuss this with the Pres or VP or any other executive member yet and I wouldn't send it without doing that first. I'm just wondering what more experienced people think of this idea.
