Thread by @lukerosiak

As American K-12 schooling has virtually collapsed, one major group has been conspicuously absent: the PTA.

A Daily Wire review shows how the PTA sold out parents for politics, pushing unrelated liberal policy items while not demanding schools re-open.

dailywire.com/news/how-the-p…

“Being involved in education is not selling wrapping paper to help teachers. That’s what the role of parents has been reduced to by the PTA. Parents would be asking tough questions, because there are a lot of problems. Yet the supposed parents’ association is planning parties?”

The PTA has repeatedly pushed for positions at odds with polling of parents.

It opposes school vouchers, which 3/4 of parents want. It advocated for transgender students in bathrooms, which 2/3 of parents opposed.

Does this look like something parents would ask for?

In its own words, in 2020 — a year defined, for millions of parents, by many teachers’ refusal to return to school with a series of ever-shifting demands — the PTA “virtually shower[ed] teachers with appreciation for the pivotal role they play in our children’s lives.”

Many kids hadn't set foot in a school in a year, but here's how the PTA's national conference went this month. Talking about climate change, advocating for social justice, and imposing racial ideology onto parents.

Evidence suggests that PTAs don't actually represent parents, but use them to do the bidding of teachers unions and school administrators. In fact, administrators are on the PTA board.

“What in that relationship says we’re going to advocate for parents? It's totally diluted.”