Peach Plains PTA
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PTA is over 100 years old and was started by a group of women concerned that children were working in sweatshops instead of going to school.  In the years since, PTA has been instrumental in improving the lives of all children.
 
PTA remains a Volunteer organization at all levels: local, council, regional, state (over 100,000 members in Michigan and national (7 million nationwide).

PTA MISSION

The mission of the PTA is three-fold:
  • To support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community, and before governmental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children;
  • To assist parents in developing the skills they need to raise and protect their children;
  • and to encourage parent and public involvement in the public schools of this nation.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PTA

  • To promote the welfare of the 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, 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 physcial, mental, social, and spiritual education.

Peach Plains PTA
15849 Comstock St, Grand Haven, MI 49417