I understand exactly why they did it. Last Spring, they cut back on teachers and classes. Grades that were divided into six classes were cut to four. Now, at this late date, they say we've "grown" and classes are suddenly too big. So they move kids. Another case of budget problems. Apparently some mishandling of funds occurred, as our business manager stepped down amidst questions about how we suddenly got so far in the hole.
I am sure there had to be a reason for them doing this. I know most of the people on our BOE very well. Many times they have to make unpopular decisions for the good of the whole. I know this stinks, but maybe if you talk to them and find out the resaons behind why they did this you will feel better. You don't have to like the end result, but maybe you will understand why they did it and that it is not personal or was not an anti-PTO decision.
Last night, in an eleventh-hour decision, our school board voted to move 47 students from one school within the district to another. School starts next week. The difficult part of this for me is not that my son is going to have to adjust to a new school, teachers, and friends,(he'll be fine) but that two of my fellow PTO officers and I will be leaving the school with them. The one officer left and the committee members we had in place are bailing. I don't blame them, I'm going to have a very difficult time, in the future, working with an administration and school board who would undercut its PTO like this. Our old school will have to find four replacement officers. They may, but the four of us ran unopposed last spring, and that was under good circumstances. Everything we did since May will go down the drain. Last year's PTO floundered and we were really getting things back on track. Now the PTO money is frozen until this cools down and someone takes the leap and agrees to run it. Too late to really get much done, let alone done well.
I didn't mention, our bylaws prohibit anyone without kids at the school from running PTO. Not that I feel like a big enough person to do that right now, anyway.
