Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Sen. Bramble and the Utah PTA

It seems Sen. Bramble is taking on the PTA moms and dads in an effort to...

Actually, I am lost as to his motive.

His bill, SB 199, wants to grant equal access to all parent and parent/teacher groups. Evidently this is a problem in Provo, so he is using his legislative prerogative to mandate a change for the entire state. Equal access doesn't seem like a bad thing, but he wants to prohibit schools from working with a parent group that requires dues for its members to vote and elect their leaders. He added an amendment in committee yesterday that would allow a school to work with a dues-paying organization that waives the dues requirement upon request. So you could belong to the organization, use its name, benefit from its resources, elect its leaders and not pay to belong.

Huh? He wants to legislate how a private organization conducts its own affairs? Is this good public policy? Because I can think of many professional organizations that collect dues and elect their leaders, and I'm pretty sure they don't want the Legislature telling them whether or not they can continue.

3 comments:

Natalie Gordon said...

This is a blatent attempt to put PTA out of business because they don't always agree with him. And why does Senator Bramble think it's his job to tell local education leaders who they should listen to? The arrogance!

BenJoeM said...

This is a revenge bill pure and simple.

alisonwonderland said...

this bill isn't about "equal access" at all. i say, "consider the source"!