PTA

The Parent Teacher Associations (PTA) in Hyde Park schools aim to establish a good home-school relationship so teachers and parents can effectively work together for the complete development of the child. PTA affords you the opportunity to become more familiar with the educational philosophy of the district, as well as its curriculum, personnel and concerns.

Every school in the district has an active PTA/PTSA with which parents are cordially invited to affiliate. The organizations hold meetings regularly (as detailed in the accompanying calendar) and support the school staff in many ways to enrich the school program and to keep parents informed on various school events.

Additionally, there is a PTA Council in the district. Officers and council representatives from each unit meet once a month at a PTA Council Meeting. This serves as a common meeting ground where parents become acquainted with the school administrators and policies and act as liaisons with the individual units, the district, and community. These meetings are open to any PTA member who wants to attend.

The Hyde Park PTAs strive to promote the "PTA Objectives" as stated by the National PTA:

• To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship;
• To raise the standards of home life
• To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth
• To bring into closer relation the home and the school so that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth
• To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education

With this in mind, the Hyde Park PTA Units recognize that by the joint efforts of the Board of Education, the school administration, faculties and staff, the community and the PTA, these objectives will continue to be accomplished in Hyde Park.

Parents and the school share the responsibility for establishing an educational climate that will encourage each child's maximum growth.

Just as you look to the school to provide the facilities and the trained personnel which are essential to your child's proper development, the school looks to you to provide him/her with the basic principles of honesty, respect for authority, consideration for the rights and property of others, and adequate standards of personal morality and integrity.

If you show your children by your words and actions that you respect the sincerity and integrity of their teachers and administrators, this attitude will likely be reflected in wholesome attitudes on the part of your child.

Parents can assist the school and your child:

• By taking an interest in your child's work and by encouraging maximum effort toward goals that are within the child's ability to attain.
• By becoming acquainted with the school, its programs, and its staff by attending "open houses," report card conferences and other meetings with your child's teacher(s), and participating in PTA and other school-sponsored activities.
• By providing adequate supervision over study habits, the meeting of school obligations, health habits, and recreational activities.
• By making your child understand that regular and punctual attendance is expected.
• By timing vacation, where possible, to coincide with periods when the schools are closed.

11 Boice Road
P. O. Box 2033
Hyde Park, NY 12538
(845) 229-4000
For Emergency Information (845) 229-4001
District Fax: 229-4056
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