PTAs find something’s missing: parents
The PTA was a popularity contest when Joy Weinstein’s youngest child started first grade two decades ago.
Women campaigned for coveted titles such as room mom, membership chairman and president.
“People would fight one another,” said Mrs. Weinstein, a Richardson mother of five. “It was like, ‘Yeah, we have 15 people who want that position.’ ”
Today’s Parent Teacher Association faces flagging numbers and a different kind of fight: Sell PTA to a new generation of parents who have little time or interest in a volunteer group known for cliques and cookie sales.
PTA membership has fallen 15 percent – almost 115,000 people – over the past decade in Texas, which traditionally has set trends for parent-teacher associations nationwide….more