Any suggestion on how to get parents more involved. Hi, Our school does open house in September. The first PTA meeting is before going to open house. We don't tell this to the parents because you are right, they won't come. Our principal gets desserts, the expensive ones, and shows a slide show of all the things our students did last year with parent involvement.
Parents get to see the enjoyment students have sharing in activities with their own parents.
They also are impressed by the desserts and the 20 minute meeting. They get to meet their child's teacher and the whole faculty. Parents have lots of good ideas about raising money and getting people to help, they just have to feel that their input is important, not listen to the PTA talk the whole meeting. Business should only take 20 minutes, not 1 hour. That is tiresome after a full day's work.