Hi Amber,
We've seen many examples of groups with teachers in the group and in leadership positions and we think it is a good idea. Teachers who are also parents can offer great insights. Interms of spying for the principal, I guess this would really be about this individual, rather than having a teacher involved in your group. It sounds like there is an assumption about this individual?
I would be thrilled if a teacher offered to take a position like that, even if she didn't have a kid in the school.
But if everyone thinks she is being a spy for the principal, that begs the question...What is it that you are hiding from the principal that people think she shouldn't know about?
I am the new PTO president at my son's school.
The organization consists of the leadership
team and of course the body - all the other
parents.
One of the teachers at the school also has a son
that attends the school and has volunteered to
be on the leadership team. She was appointed
Secretary.
Lately, I have been seeing her in the principal's
office quite often - but she is on staff there. I do
feel she has the right to participate in the
general body because she is a parent. But is it
a conflict of interest that as a teacher, she holds
a leadership position? Our other leadership team
members feel she is just being a spy for the
principal.
