Morgan tells schools to make it easier for parents to attend PTA meetings

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Senator Marlon Morgan, is urging school leaders to prepare and share annual calendars well in advance to allow parents sufficient time to plan for school activities and Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) meetings.

Morgan said early communication is especially important for working parents.

“See how best you can put those in place and have them disseminated. For example, when the parents come in for orientation…we are able to give them the proposed calendar of events so that they can more adequately plan for the respective school events because we do not want to countenance the heap of complaints, school leaders, in relation to a parent not being able to make themselves available,” he said.