Our principal doesn't give the teachers a choice and most of the schools around here do it the same way.
Every teacher is required to sign up for one meeting. With 28 teachers, not including specials and only 6 mtgs this gives us a few teachers at each meeting. Our teacher rep has decided that this next year she wants 1 teacher from each grade to be at each mtg so that parents can see them involved.
Give me a break, we do alot for them too and alot of our teachers have kids at the school and should support what we do for them. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Stef

We are having the same problem with teacher participation. We had a sign-up sheet, and the principal is also requesting and reminding them to attend.

So in our summer meetings I'm going to suggest that we elimate our grants we offer to the teachers.

We give them 150.00 for your classroom. This includes, all teachers/specialty teachers and after care teachers.

We also give them 300.00 for teacher enrichment programs. All teachers get this every year.

We seem to have to problem that we discuss issues at our meetings, then the teachers don't like what is going on then the complaining begins.

I don't want to threaten with these items, but our HSA does alot for our school, which also benefits the staff.

Our year budget is about 45000.00 which we give 40% directly to school to do what ever they want.

We sponsor Ed-line, printers, smart boards, ink, field day, catholic schools week, multiple family fun nights, buzz books, room parties, religion series, computers for computer lab, welcome breakfast, 8th grade dances, 8th grade graduation, and others.

I think that teachers, along with parents should participate. Especially when mutliple teachers have children enrolled in school.

Pals:

Even four teachers attending a meeting is four more than we have had. We have two staff people that are also parents. They come, but they are there as parents. Our meetings are at 7:00 p.m., so they could go home and have a few hours before they had to be back. I think it is important to have input from the staff. Our principal is at almost all of our meetings. It would be nice to have an interaction with the teachers, so that we minimize grumbling about certain activities and get a better sense of what we can do to help around school.

hey metzy mom...I dont think ten bucks would even get teachers at out meetings..ha ha. we have recently ran into problems with staff assuming that we are paying for things...even before they ask us they order stuff. so next year we are going to "the field of dreams" method...if they want money they have to come in person, NO ONE IS EXEMPT!! If they dont request in person it's a automatic NO!! Harsh?? maybe but tired of being expected to cover stuff because we may have in the past.

We had the principal 'tell' the teachers at their teachers meeting that at least one teacher will attend from each grade. If they need money for something, they will come (sort of a 'field of dreams' notion'? Whatever, they came. That was two years ago when I was pres. They quit coming at all the last two years, with few exceptions.

This year (although I disagree with the idea), we are considering this: Instead of reimbursement money being doled out at the beginning of the year, teachers will be reimbursed at the rate of $10 for each meeting they attend. I don't agree with the idea because I think that it is holding teachers hostage AND I think that a room full of teachers forced to attend every meeting will turn out to be a tad hostile. But that's just me...

We have 4 teacher reps. At any of our meetings we have at least 2 there.