Word: pta
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...families. For the most part, gay families are just like other families, dealing with soccer practice, homework and daily chores, but the kids and parents in these households must also cope with special problems that range from confronting discrimination to being the only kid with two moms at the PTA meeting. "Gay-specific issues include whom to come out to, isolation and the need for validation--especially for kids," says Terry Boggis, director of Center Kids at New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center...
...Parents in Forsyth County, Ga., can log onto a website that shows everything from the levels that students must achieve on Georgia's standardized exam to what their child's next term paper is on--and when it's due. "I have to admit I don't go to PTA meetings, but I can check up on homework assignments, projects and grades while I'm at work," says Bailey Mitchell, father of a ninth-grader...
Every school has its Leslie Kanofsky. She's the parent all the teachers know, whether they have taught her kids or not. She's a loving mom, a committed PTA officer, a regular face in the halls--and, some say, a royal pain. In an age when many schools would be pleased if most of their parents would venture into the building a couple of times a year, Kanofsky, of Skokie, Ill., is in her kids' schools as many as three times a week. The mother of a sixth-grader, an 11th-grader and a college student, she has crusaded...
Maybe Dr. Spiesel, a professor at Yale University School of Medicine, could be recognized by the PTA. There ought to be a way to honor the person who each year has done the most for lightening the load of parents--an award for achievements like figuring out how to replace all the buckles and zippers and snaps on children's snowsuits with Velcro...
...which resulted in a similar special issue. One reason for these trips is that those of us in the national media spend a lot of time listening to issues being debated at distant summits and congressional hearings but not enough time listening to discussions that occur at local PTA and school board meetings, at Rotary and Kiwanis clubs, at coffee shops where store owners congregate on slow Tuesday mornings...