Please join the PTA for the 2010-2011 school year.
Anyone can become a member: parents, grandparents, teachers, aunts, uncles, staff, neighbors, and friends. Dues are $5 per member. $3 of the $5 is to pay state and national dues. The money is used on a local, state and national level to improve your child’s educational experience.
- Download and complete the PTA Membership Enrollment Form 2010-2011.
- Please make check payable to “Highland Lakes Elementary PTA” and return the payment and PTA Membership Enrollment Form 2010-2011 together in an envelope labeled PTA to your child’s teacher.
Why join PTA?
The number one reason to join the Parent Teacher Association is to benefit your child. In doing so, you also help your school. But there are many more PTA advantages:
- Get Connected. There’s no better way to know what’s happening in your school.
- Discover Great Resources. The PTA offers a variety of programs for parents and students.
- Tap into a Network. PTA functions are opportunities to meet other parents and teachers, building rapport and discussing issues that are on your mind.
- Watch Yourself Grow. By volunteering with your PTA, you put your skills and hobbies to use for a noble cause—your child and all children in the community.
- Speak Up. PTA can be a way for you to more effectively suggest change at your child’s school.
- Witness Improvement. By getting involved at your child’s school you’ll be part of the solution, helping make positive changes. HLE PTA plays an important role in fundraising to provide building improvements, curriculum-based programs, and social events.
- Be a Role Model. By becoming a PTA member, you’ll be demonstrating to your child the importance you place on education.
- Enjoy Substantial Benefits. Members can take advantage of many benefits from PTA membership including discounts and many great offers only available to members.
What does the PTA do?
As the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation, the PTA reminds our country of its obligations to children and provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students.
