PTA - What We Stand For:

OBJECTS OF PTA

• To promote the welfare of children and youth in 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.

MISSION OF PTA

• Support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community and before govern-mental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children.

• To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children.

• To encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools of this nation
   

 ILLINOIS PTA CHARTER RULES

• To carry on constructive work for better parenthood, better homes, better schools, and better communities.
• To refrain from all partisan and factional political activities.
• To refuse consideration by the association of personal grievances.
• To participate in the decision-making process establishing school policy, recognizing that the legal responsibilities to make decisions have been delegated by the people to boards of education.
• To cooperate with the superintendent, principal, and teachers in promoting the best interest of the school community.

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