What is the difference between ParentNet meetings and a PTA or PTO meeting?
PTA/PTO meetings typically focus on special events and fundraising to support school sports and clubs, and other costs not supported by the school budget. These are business meetings with business agendas. Although PTAs/PTOs provide avenues for parent involvement, they do not bring same grade-level parents together to learn how they can support the academic, social, and emotional development of their children. This is ParentNet’s primary focus. In many schools, ParentNet becomes an official program of the PTA/PTO and is funded by them. However, some schools prefer to keep ParentNet organizationally separate from the PTA/PTO and position it as a new and unique parent-school collaboration.
