Yeah, it's not just PTA's, either, it's organizations like that in general. When my folks were coffee farming in Hawaii, they attended some local planning meetings. All the attendees were white first generation residents. So the voice of the aeons old Japanese coffee farms was lost. But you could hardly blame them, it was this bizarre (and ultimately ineffective) government structure being imposed on the land that had been there for generations. And yet, even those voices were ignored in favor of developers.
So there's reasons why people are rightfully wary of that type of organization. Not saying the PTA is the same thing, just that it's this external structure that may or may not make sense in the framework of the given community.
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Date: 2009-03-05 05:39 pm (UTC)So there's reasons why people are rightfully wary of that type of organization. Not saying the PTA is the same thing, just that it's this external structure that may or may not make sense in the framework of the given community.