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Our PTA has had a closet for the last eon, this next school year we have a "Parent Center" an old classroom inherited from 2 classes 9the other is the lbrary expansion) being moved into permanent portable classrooms (oxymoron).
The school put up signs on the door "Parent Center" but so far its being used as the copyroom/ aide/ speech coach room.
We'd like to reorginize/ aquisition half and add a kids play area (for at-home-parents) a computer and some comfy workstations. We'll see...
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We have had a storage cabinet as long as I can remember but never any space to work in until this year. There is a huge storage closet and we use about 1/4 of it for storage and work (like tallying fundraisers, etc.)while the afterschool program is in it from 3-6 and the janitors have half of it for supplies and storage. The secretaries refer to it as my hole but it's someplace to work in that I always have access to. We also have stuff that we had to keep under lock and key because it would walk off and we had a recent bad experience with a member taking things to their house and we didn't get them back or got it back in horrible condition. I really don't think I could keep up all the work I do if I didn't have a place to work and I'm very thankful that our principal understands that.
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I was going to ask this question out of curriosity too about having a PTO room. The principal is rearranging classrooms in our school K-2 about 500 students integrating the 1st and 2nd together instead of one grade on each wing of the school.
I have to say though our principal helped out a lot and gave us an entire classroom to keep all our stuff in there and to hold meetings and such. She is really into getting parent participation. I just have to figure how I want everything organized.
I was curious how other PTO do this just an office, classroom or what they usually use.
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LOL, That idea may work, since our principal is wanting to attend every meeting we have. I did find that we have 12 janitorial closets. Not sure why we need that many? Our school has 800 students. Do you know if most schools with PTO/PTA have their own PTO room? Thanks
you could always do what i did our first year or two...I kept putting our stuff in the corner of the office copy room. When our school put on a new wing the principal gave our group the first walk in storage closet. She basically got tired of our junk...ha ha ha
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Thanks, Debbie!
I took your advice and made a trip to school today. The principal was at a workshop, so I poked my head around to see what room or corner we could use. I did find some areas, I also looked to see if they could fit a cabinet. I plan on speaking with her on Monday. If you or anyone else comes up with more ideas, feel free to share. Thanks Again
