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How To Clean a Coffee Maker

3100 Caldera Blvd — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:29:32 -0500

How To Make an Excuse Letter

garrett — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:44:14 -0500

An excuse letter is typically required when you need to explain a past or future absence at some institution, usually in school or college. Absences from your place of employment generally do not warrant excuse letters, most HR policies will provide guidelines for unplanned and medical leave; following these guidelines is accepted procedure and you need not produce any excuse letters. For students on the other hand, it is perceived that one has not attained sufficient maturity and understanding and is still subject to some authority or control, whether by parents or by the teaching faculty or school administration. There are no guidelines or policies regulating unplanned absences at school, hence the excuse letter comes into play here.

How To Start Parent Teacher Organizations

Sheryl209 — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:59:00 -0500

Thanks to the popularity of the song and movie title "Harper Valley PTA," most groups of parents and teachers affiliated with schools are commonly referred to as "PTAs," short for Parent-Teacher Associations. However, in reality, roughly 75% of all such groups in the United States are not PTAs at all, but are really PTOs, Parent Teacher Organizations.

What's the difference? It's not just semantics. A PTA is a local associate group that collects dues and pays them forward into the national PTA. However, a PTO is an independent organization formed by the parents and teachers themselves that is not affiliated with the PTA, that may or may not charge dues at all, and is usually formed as a nonprofit corporation.

How do you start a PTO?