Need School PTAs to be proactive

If the Sunnyvale School Superintendent is deliberately suppressing the notification through the faculty, how do we get news to the students and families?
PTA Mission: The overall purpose of PTA, according to National PTA.org:
- A powerful voice for all children
- A relevant resource for families and communities
- A strong advocate for the education and well-being of every child

PTA Values: What PTA stands for:
- Collaboration: We work in partnership with a wide array of individuals and organizations to accomplish our agreed-upon goals.
- Commitment: We are dedicated to promoting children’s health, well-being, and educational success through strong parent, family, and community involvement.
- Accountability: We acknowledge our obligations. We deliver on our promises.
- Respect: We value our colleagues and ourselves. We expect the same high quality of effort and thought from ourselves as we do from others.
- Inclusivity: We invite the stranger and welcome the newcomer. We value and seek input from as wide a spectrum of viewpoints and experiences as possible.
- Integrity: We act consistently with our beliefs. When we err, we acknowledge the mistake and seek to make amends.

According to these guidelines of the National PTA, even though the presidents and chairs of various PTAs may value money generated by the AT&T CPT lease, these PTAs still have the obligation to notify all parents and families of their schools, based on, especially, Mission Statement #2 Relevant Resource and Values Statement #5 Inclusivity.

It just pisses me off that these PTAs are also trying to prevent the spread of the notification just because they have the power to control the email lists. This is against everything a PTA stands for!


Here is an incomplete list of who is who at the PTAs of SMS and its feeder schools.

SMS PTA

Wendy Bockholt -wbockholt@yahoo.com (President)

Kathy Besse - khb@graystar.com
Alice Chu - the_kazkid@yahoo.com
We-Ling Chu - wchu425@gmail.com
Lisa Coe - quickcoe@yahoo.com
Lisa Dabel -
Rosella Fernandez - rosellaf@sbcglobal.net
Lisa Greene - lisag@mac.com
Trish Guerreri - garyair@informart.com
Sophia Haupt - shaupt@rosendin.com (bad email?)
Becky Hunt - davidandbeckyhunt@yahoo.com
Becky Jevons -
Linda Kamas - 
Julie Kilpatrick - jultime@aol.com
Stacey Niblett - sniblett@pacbell.net
Yasmin Parvereshi - ypar1234@yahoo.com
Aboli Pathak - aboli202@yahoo.com
Linda Robinson - lrobinsnest@yahoo.com
Marites Smith - marites@mips.com
Sharadon Smith - sharadonsmith@gmail.com
Sandi Spires - sandispires@gmail.com
Yaulanda Spyrou - yspyrou@e-spyrou.com
Susan Stevenson - susanstevens@gmail.com
Nancy Talesfore - ptals4@aol.com
Tracy Wingrove - t.wingrove@comcast.net


Cherry Chase PTA

Heather Alonso - heatheralonso1@yahoo.com (President)

Lynn Bauer - lkbauer@sbcglobal.net
Dawn Bussey - dawnbussey@yahoo.com
Alice Chu - chunami@comcast.net
Heather Cooke - heather_cooke@yahoo.com
Chris Driggett - driggett@mac.com
Amanda Estes - atonner@altsolutions.com
Terri Goddard - goddardterri@hotmail.com
Lisa Felipa -
Val Freytag - valfreytag@aol.com
Sara Johnson - sara.johnson@yahoo.com 
Martha Lampert - mvlampert@sbcglobal.net
Kelli Lockwood - locoweed66@aol.com
Lisa Miller - lkmiller3@gmail.com
Kathy Mortensen - kmortensen@inlinepromotions.com
Traci Oberman - racioberman@yahoo.com
Miriam Ohman - miriam_ohman@hotmail.com
Kathy Ortiz - kgo3717@yahoo.com
Lori Wilkinson Rella - jonah456@yahoo.com
Puja Sampat-Khosla - pujasampat@hotmail.com
Lisa Schouten - lschouten@comast.net
Terri Terada - terri_terada@yahoo.com
Kao Violet - kao@comcast.net
Eva Weng - eva_weng@yahoo.com
Bridget Watson - parislitwit@gmail.com
Lesley Wynne - lesley@mac.com
Tony Ybarra - dadfulltime@yahoo.com


Cumberland PTA

Reid Myers - cumberlandpta@gmail.com, reidandtodd@yahoo.com (President)

Anne Branch - anne@branchfamily.com
Julie Colwell - julie_colwell@yahoo.com
Jill Cotton - jillscotton@yahoo.com
Celeste Deggeller - cdeggeller@sbcglobal.net
Karen Grant - kgrant@cs.stanford.edu
Jennifer Gray -
Diane Guerin - dn_guerin@yahoo.com
Leslie Jeng Labbe - llj65@yahoo.com
Nikki Miner - jndbminer@comcast.net
Catherine Tiritoglu - cathy@uilab.com
Nina Wong-Dobkin - NinaWD@batnet.com
Kay Zeren - kay@zeren.com


Ellis PTA

Vargas PTA (information from 2007)

Fred Wiesinger - freder@gmail.com (President)