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Dallas Superintendent needs to get with the involvement program

March 24th, 2009 by

Maybe it’s this nasty cold I have that’s making me grumpy this week, but these news stories (started with the lady suing the PTO over raffle rules) are driving me crazy.  Now, we have a Superintendent completely missing the boat on the essential nature of parent involvement in schools. Did he miss the memo? That a district even considers charging the parent-teacher group to use the space is ludicrous.  C’mon! Shall we charge the history teacher for classroom space? 

The PTA or PTO is not, repeat not, equivalent to the scouts or the local basketball league. We’ll be happy to forward the dozens of research reports that make that clear. Ugh. <end rant> 

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