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PTA Founders DayCelebrating over 100 years
of child advocacy
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PTA Mission
The mission of the PTA is threefold:
• To support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community and before governmental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children;
• To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children; and
• To encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools of this nation.
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In 1897 America:
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“Each day that you fail to advocate,
Each day that you ignore an act of discrimination,
Each day you accept another injustice,
You accept a society that is going to kill your children.”
- William L.E. Dussault
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National Congress of Mothers Founded 1897
Alice McLellan Birney
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
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National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers
Founded 1926
Selena Sloan Butler
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THEN - PTA was a driving force in:
• Child labor laws
• Kindergarten
• Public health service
• Hot lunch programs
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AND NOW – PTA is still a driving force
• Juvenile justice system
• Mandatory immunizations
• Seat belts
• Bicycle helmets
• And so much more…
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Our PTA Founders’ Vision Lives On
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Information Sources
• Your PTA meetings, newsletters, email communications and website
• PTA Council or Region newsletter, website• Florida PTA Bulletin, website at www.floridapta.org,
legislative alerts and state office at (800) 373-5782• National PTA Our Children magazine, website at
www.pta.org, This Week in Washington and national office at (800) 307-4PTA
• School district administration office, School Board and Superintendent, school board meetings, school district web site
• Your Legislators’ offices• Florida Legislature website - Online Sunshine with links
to House and Senate• The media – newspapers, television, and online
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Share what you know!
Be a Voice for Children!
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The Advocate's Credo.....
Thou art my child, my parent, and my elder,I love thee best;
But could not love thee half as much,Loved I not all the rest.
Source - Jack Levine, Founder4Generations Institute
www.4GenerationsInstitute.org
PTA members are proud to be
Powerful, Tenacious
Advocates!
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Celebrate Founder’s Day!• Display pictures and memorabilia describing PTA’s more than 100-
year history • Research and draw up your PTA’s historic milestones • Observe the inclusiveness of PTA’s founding by organizing a culture
festival celebrating your community’s various ethnic and cultural groups.
• Present Honorary Life Memberships to past PTA presidents and other volunteers who have made a tremendous impact in their communities.
• Invite all past living PTA presidents to attend a special meeting. • Recite the mission of the National PTA at a special meeting. • Send a Founders Day gift to National PTA, such as $1 for each year of
membership or $1 for every unit chartered. • Locate and highlight any resolutions that your PTA sent forward to
the state or National PTA. • Share information from the National PTA through mailings to
members. • Celebrate each year of National PTA with a scoop of ice cream to be
shared with students at a special party. • Challenge students to research PTA and create a school display or
mural. • Ask local grocers and vendors to print PTA anniversary messages on
their bags. Ref: National PTA Annual Guide for PTAs, Programs Section, Founders Day www.pta.org
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“There is only one child in all the world, and his name is All Children.”
– Carl Sandburg