Beware of the PTA

The PTA…now does not even bill itself as an educational association for parents, but rather as “children’s advocacy” organization run by parents in conjunction with teachers.  Indeed, it has become the parent-volunteer arm of that union behemoth, the National Education Association.  Not that the PTA was ever particularly dedicated to heeding local parent constituencies in the matter of educational policy; the organization was formed more than a century ago for purposes of “parent education” by the wealthy, prominent, “progressive” women known today as the foremothers of the turn-of-the-century “social reform” movement.

Dana Mack, The Assault on Parenthood: How Our Culture Undermines the Family, p.273-274