Why Join PTA? 
The number-one reason to join the Parent Teacher Association is to benefit your child. In doing so, you also help your school. But there are many more advantages. Here are just a few:

• Get Connected.  There’s no better way to know what’s happening in your school.
• Discover Great Resources.  The PTA offers a variety of programs designed for parents as well as students.
• Tap into a Network.  Parenting is not easy—it helps to share ideas, concerns and experiences with other parents and educators in the community. PTA functions are opportunities to meet other parents and teachers, building rapport and discussing issues that are on your mind.
• Watch Yourself Grow.  By volunteering with your PTA, you gain valuable experiences. It’s an opportunity to put your skills and hobbies to good use for a good cause—your child and all children in the community.
• Speak Up.  Because the PTA is a forum for exchanging ideas, you are encouraged to make suggestions. PTA can be a way for you to more effectively suggest change at your child’s school.
• Witness Improvement.  By getting involved at your child’s school you’ll be part of the solution, helping make positive changes. Local PTAs play an important role in fundraising to provide building improvements, curriculum-based programs, and social events—all vital to a school’s success.
• Be a Role Model. By becoming a PTA member, you’ll be demonstrating to your child the importance you place on education.  Learn more about the Benefits of Joining PTA.

For less than 3 cents a day, you can become a PTA member, joining nearly 6 million other people who share your interest in issues affecting children. Everyone—parents, educators, students and other citizens active in their schools and communities—are invited to join our not-for-profit organization.

Reprinted with permission from the National PTA website, www.pta.org.

• If you haven't joined PTA for 2008 -09 you can do so at the upcoming meeting or pick up a registration form in the office the annual cost is $5.  For more info contact Dorie Allen. 
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WFE PTA Mission  

• To support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools and before governmental agencies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children. 
• To assist parents in developing skills they need to raise and protect their children. 
• To encourage parent and public involvement in the schools of this nation.

WFE PTA Objectives  

• To promote the welfare of children and youth in the home, school, community and place of worship.
• To raise the standards of home life.
• To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth.
• To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth.
• To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth, the highest advantages in physical, mental, social and spiritual education.