Talk:Parent-Teacher Association

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Contents 1 Convo 2 Other meanings 3 Separate Entries 4 Background needed 5 USA-centric 6 Popular culture/Trivia

[edit] Convo

Where should this article go? It's got information about specific PTA organizations in the UK, US and elsewhere but it also discussing the generic concept of a Parent Teach [Student] Association or Organization. That's a pretty broad topic.

Should the National PTA organization in the US be moved to it's own page? Not much to include there at present.

Rtphokie 16:54, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I think it might be best to create a separate section in the present article for the United States and move all the US and PTO information into this section. It's somewhat misleading to have a section on PTOS when this term is only used in the US and the whole section is specific to the US.Dahliarose 18:03, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other meanings

Are there other meanings for the acronym PTA? I once saw some grafitti that said "Smash the PTA". I found it hard to believe someone was so much against a Parent-Teacher Association. 87.112.4.3 22:31, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Separate Entries

I believe PTO and PTA should have their own separate entries. The PTA is a national (U.S.A.) level organization which uses local school & state dues to support its national office for national level political lobby, the NPTA has been closely aligned with the National Education Association (teachers union). PTO's are local school level organizations set-up for that particular school to support parent-teacher projects and stay out of national level politics. More and more PTA's are being dis-established in order to establish local controlled and funded PTO's. There is great deal of confusion about PTO's vs PTA's, separating the entries would insure objective content for both.

[edit] Background needed

This article has no historical information about the origins of the 110-year-old PTA, which has been influential all around the world. Nor is the item critical. As a start, I've added a sentence from the messy timeline found within the association's website, but much more from all points of view is needed. CallMeHenry (talk) 13:18, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USA-centric

This article only mentions PTA in the U.S.A. (although it began in the U.S.), ignoring PTAs in other countries, such as Japan and Britain. Hope someone can information about PTAs in these countries to the article. I've put the {{Globalize/USA}} and {{Edu-stub}} to address the issue. --RekishiEJ (talk) 08:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Popular culture/Trivia

I dont see any reason to disapprove of the references to popular culture, calling it "trivia". What i was looking for was a translation af the title "Harper Valley P.T.A", and I got got my question fully answered. Jens, Denmark. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.82.218.206 (talk) 09:35, 25 May 2008 (UTC)