OHMS PTsA '05-'08
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Greetings KUSD and 14th District PTA, I appreciate your willingness to support PTA in KUSD. Children, families and teachers benefitted from PTA activities. Your endorsement was wise. Thank you.... |
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July 14, 2014
Greetings, Congressman Garamendi.
I am enclosing a copy of the final notes for OHMS PTSA because KUSD is now in your district. This endeavor to introduce the first and only PTA in Lake County history met with significant success as a result of parent and teacher support. Unfortunately, administrative resistance proved to be an insurmountable obstacle. PTA truly needs the support of school administrators to succeed, but most of our administrators were simply too adversarial to participate in a such a co-operative endeavor. I write in hope this information falls on receptive ears and facilitates positive change. A copy of this email is being forwarded to KUSD School Board Members, 14th District PTSA, CA State PTA and Lloyd Stanbury, Esq., UNESCO.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Eberhardt, OHMS PTSA President, LLHS PTSA Arts in Education Chair & Lake County PTA Liaison
**** OHMS PTSA FINAL NOTES ****
These three years were a challenge, a pleasure, and, above all, an enlightening experience. OHMS PTSA was proud to:
- Encourage parent involvement
Increase parent communication through newsletters, phone calls, and the Internet
Develop teacher, school, and academic Websites
Donate parent, teacher, and student memberships
- Support teacher appreciation
Donate NCATE Non-fiction Award books to teachers and the library
Accept and forward book donations on behalf of a local business
- Garner congressional endorsement
Facilitate school policy change to the dress code
Introduce Robert’s Rules and PTA structure to student government leaders’ teachers
- Add arts enrichment
Donate a Professional Double-Valve Silver French Horn: $4,000.00 Retail
Include local art professionals as judges of the Reflections entries
Co-teach Interdisciplinary Art/History Lessons
Successfully train a parent to co-teach an Interdisciplinary Art/History Lesson
- Facilitate a healthy, safe campus
Introduce anti-bullying student palm cards
Support a KUSD anti-violence grant application
- Support LLHS PTSA's letter writing campaign that raised enough money to send LLHS Choir to Washington D.C..
- Win several unit awards and a state art grant.
- Solicit and donate a tree from the local nursery for the Founder’s Day celebration.
- Nominate a teacher for the teacher-of-the-year award.
You may notice that some PTA activities are not headlined in the news. This is because the local newspaper editor generally refused to print articles that correlated PTA with success. With the exceptions of the receipt of the charter and donation of the French Horn, she shared only the struggles. In the end, both Oak Hill Middle School and Lower Lake High School proved to be vivid examples of an unrestrained tripartite system: Administrators clinging to public school policies for dear life, teachers huddling under the umbrellas of unions lobbying statutes and parents left leaning upon courts of equity. This adversarial posturing has resulted in an all permeating lack of trust with most of the administrators behaving as the biggest bullies on the block, managing employees, parents and students by pitting one against the other. This is not an environment conducive to learning. Embezzlement is a problem extending beyond the District keeping the PTA's state grant money rather than purchasing art supplies. Neighborhood old-timers assure me these dynamics have existed in the district for decades. The youth say the same problems continue today. PTA provided a few notable exceptions...
Greetings, Congressman Garamendi.
I am enclosing a copy of the final notes for OHMS PTSA because KUSD is now in your district. This endeavor to introduce the first and only PTA in Lake County history met with significant success as a result of parent and teacher support. Unfortunately, administrative resistance proved to be an insurmountable obstacle. PTA truly needs the support of school administrators to succeed, but most of our administrators were simply too adversarial to participate in a such a co-operative endeavor. I write in hope this information falls on receptive ears and facilitates positive change. A copy of this email is being forwarded to KUSD School Board Members, 14th District PTSA, CA State PTA and Lloyd Stanbury, Esq., UNESCO.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Eberhardt, OHMS PTSA President, LLHS PTSA Arts in Education Chair & Lake County PTA Liaison
**** OHMS PTSA FINAL NOTES ****
These three years were a challenge, a pleasure, and, above all, an enlightening experience. OHMS PTSA was proud to:
- Encourage parent involvement
Increase parent communication through newsletters, phone calls, and the Internet
Develop teacher, school, and academic Websites
Donate parent, teacher, and student memberships
- Support teacher appreciation
Donate NCATE Non-fiction Award books to teachers and the library
Accept and forward book donations on behalf of a local business
- Garner congressional endorsement
Facilitate school policy change to the dress code
Introduce Robert’s Rules and PTA structure to student government leaders’ teachers
- Add arts enrichment
Donate a Professional Double-Valve Silver French Horn: $4,000.00 Retail
Include local art professionals as judges of the Reflections entries
Co-teach Interdisciplinary Art/History Lessons
Successfully train a parent to co-teach an Interdisciplinary Art/History Lesson
- Facilitate a healthy, safe campus
Introduce anti-bullying student palm cards
Support a KUSD anti-violence grant application
- Support LLHS PTSA's letter writing campaign that raised enough money to send LLHS Choir to Washington D.C..
- Win several unit awards and a state art grant.
- Solicit and donate a tree from the local nursery for the Founder’s Day celebration.
- Nominate a teacher for the teacher-of-the-year award.
You may notice that some PTA activities are not headlined in the news. This is because the local newspaper editor generally refused to print articles that correlated PTA with success. With the exceptions of the receipt of the charter and donation of the French Horn, she shared only the struggles. In the end, both Oak Hill Middle School and Lower Lake High School proved to be vivid examples of an unrestrained tripartite system: Administrators clinging to public school policies for dear life, teachers huddling under the umbrellas of unions lobbying statutes and parents left leaning upon courts of equity. This adversarial posturing has resulted in an all permeating lack of trust with most of the administrators behaving as the biggest bullies on the block, managing employees, parents and students by pitting one against the other. This is not an environment conducive to learning. Embezzlement is a problem extending beyond the District keeping the PTA's state grant money rather than purchasing art supplies. Neighborhood old-timers assure me these dynamics have existed in the district for decades. The youth say the same problems continue today. PTA provided a few notable exceptions...
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Post by BLAKK ROSE MUSIC. |
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Inclusive social environments which provide support to parents have been shown to enhance parents’ capacity to care for their children and in doing so promote better child health and development.
http://www.myvmc.com/lifestyles/parenting-the-social-environment-and-its-effects-on-child-development/
http://www.myvmc.com/lifestyles/parenting-the-social-environment-and-its-effects-on-child-development/
