Last year we had 2 schools combine to one which has turned into a nightmare when combining PTO's. They both ran as seperate organizations up to the end of the year. The school that ours blended into decided to incorporate (without our schools knowledge until after it was approved and completed) and they made up their own set of crazy rules that over-rides the 4 elected pto officers (president/vice president/treasurer/secretary). Basically we had 2 members from each old acting PTO boards from each school that would hold a position at the new school until the following election year so it was 50/50 for each school to start out.

Well...........this is confusing but i'll try to esplain the best i know how.

The school that we joined into voted (we could not vote at their open meetings until the start of this school year) on a board of their old 4 officers that can over ride anything the PTO Officers do and they can hold that position until they feel the desire to leave it.

The problem now is getting a hold of any incorporation agreement, getting information from any of the parties involved. The superintendent and principal maintain that we are a outside group which they can not over run and not get involved in unless it affects the school or the students, and they believe parents should do nothing about the crooked running of the incorprated board members unless the do something against the children.

At the last meeting the now president (of the PTO officers and the Board members - - get the drift of who is the problem) told parents that they are not qualified to review any of the documents and stopped all further questioning at the meeting.

IF THIS WERE YOUR SCHOOL...WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'D START AT TRYING TO FIND ANSWERS TO FIX THE CHAOS???