PTO Meeting Tuesday Night at 6:00!
It's the last one of the school year. Whoa!
Last PTO meeting of the year THIS Tuesday evening at 6:00 p.m. in the cafeteria
Save the dinner date—Fabio’s NY Pizza fundraiser is NEXT Tuesday, May 28
Who sat on the remote and started fast-forwarding reality back in the third week of April? How is it possibly the case that there are only fourteen school days left this school year? Why do my kids, on the other hand, insist that time is proceeding glacially—even as the glacier that is their childhood is calving off into the ocean with sudden and disturbing and increasing rapidity? Why does this PTO email begin with now four silly rhetorical questions when really the only reason it’s even in your inbox is to invite you to our final meeting of the year?
Who can say?! (Five, now!) This could have been a five-word text message!
On Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. the Johnson Elementary Parent-Teacher Organization will host our final meeting of the 2023-2024 school year in the Johnson cafeteria. There will be food and childcare, if you would like to come and eat and feed your kids, too. We will be nominating and voting on 2024-2025’s PTO Board, among other very important and serious business, so if you have any designs on any of our jobs, come and make a go of it! We’re also looking to add at least one wonderful person to our team for next year—a community outreach officer. We are a 501c3 charitable organization, and there are a lot of corporations big and small in this town that just love to give money to those sorts of charities, and we need someone who wants to help us reach out to those businesses and secure their money for your friendly neighborhood PTO. Maybe that’s you!
I can only speak for myself, but I suspect it’s also true for the rest of us who make up the PTO, and really any of you who have given even five minutes of your time or donated to one of our various fundraisers this year or shown up for one of our events—engaging with the community is among the most consistently rewarding things I get to do. It sounds overly sentimental and cloying, but it also happens to be true. Whether it’s writing these occasionally unnecessarily expansive PTO dispatches, or scanning badges for Leopard Laps behind the school, or getting to coach some of your kids in Little League down at Quarry Park—nothing shrinks this big, unwieldy, often bewildering world into something both meaningful and manageable better than volunteering time and energy.
So that’s my sales pitch! Come hang out Tuesday evening, and we’ll find a way to get you more involved, if that interests you. But even if all you do is show up and sit in the back and laugh nervously when Jill tries to tell her joke again, you won’t regret the hour. Plus, there will be free Wegmans food and fizzy flavor water. We hope to see you there!