PTA Founders Day

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PTA Founders Day

• Celebrating over 100 years
• of child advocacy

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PTA Mission

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

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In 1897 America
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Each day that you fail to advocate,Each day
that you ignore an act of discrimination,Each
day you accept another injustice,You accept a
society that is going to kill your children.
- William L.E. Dussault
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National Congress of Mothers Founded 1897
Alice McLellan Birney
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
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National Congress of Colored Parents and
Teachers Founded 1926

• Selena Sloan Butler

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THEN - PTA was a driving force in

• Child labor laws
• Kindergarten
• Public health service
• Hot lunch programs

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AND NOW PTA is still a driving force

• Juvenile justice system
• Mandatory immunizations
• Seat belts
• Bicycle helmets
• And so much more

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Our PTA Founders Vision Lives On
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Information Sources

• Your PTA meetings, newsletters, email
  communications and website
• PTA Council or Region newsletter, website
• Florida PTA Bulletin, website at
  www.floridapta.org, legislative alerts and state
  office at [phone]
• National PTA Our Children magazine, website at
  www.pta.org, This Week in Washington and national
  office at (800) 307-4PTA
• School district administration office, School
  Board and Superintendent, school board meetings,
  school district web site
• Your Legislators offices
• Florida Legislature website - Online Sunshine
  with links to House and Senate
• The media newspapers, television, and online

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Share what you know! Be a Voice for Children!
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PTA members are proud to be Powerful, Tenacious
Advocates!
The Advocate's Credo..... Thou art my child, my
parent, and my elder, I love thee best But could
not love thee half as much, Loved I not all the
rest.
Source - Jack Levine, Founder 4Generations
Institute www.4GenerationsInstitute.org 
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Celebrate Founders Day!

• Display pictures and memorabilia describing PTAs
  more than 100-year history
• Research and draw up your PTAs historic
  milestones
• Observe the inclusiveness of PTAs founding by
  organizing a culture festival celebrating your
  communitys various ethnic and cultural groups.
• Present Honorary Life Memberships to past PTA
  presidents and other volunteers who have made a
  tremendous impact in their communities.
• Invite all past living PTA presidents to attend a
  special meeting.
• Recite the mission of the National PTA at a
  special meeting.
• Send a Founders Day gift to National PTA, such as
  1 for each year of membership or 1 for every
  unit chartered.
• Locate and highlight any resolutions that your
  PTA sent forward to the state or National PTA.
• Share information from the National PTA through
  mailings to members.
• Celebrate each year of National PTA with a scoop
  of ice cream to be shared with students at a
  special party.
• Challenge students to research PTA and create a
  school display or mural.
• Ask local grocers and vendors to print PTA
  anniversary messages on their bags.

Ref National PTA Annual Guide for PTAs, Programs
Section, Founders Day www.pta.org
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There is only one child in all the world, and
his name is All Children.
Carl Sandburg