PTA
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- noun
- /ˌpiːtiːˈeɪ/
- Specialized
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asociación de padres y maestros
- Our moms were on PTA together.
- a PTA meeting
- attend PTA meetings
- PTA parents
There might be something going on at school with the teachers or the PTA.
- There might be something going on at school with the teachers or the PTA.
- Think of the sort of, I know the vicious PTA mom who turns the bake sale into a militaristic mess.
- They were active in the PTA and in the neighborhood, in the church, doing things on a volunteer basis.
- You go out tonight and it's a fundraiser of your local PTA or the school or, or it's the the banquet for the high school basketball team.
- Shit, you slept around on your spouse and you just found out that tomorrow she and the lady you're having an affair with are going to be at the same PTA meeting.
- I don't give a fuck if it's your PTA, your City Council, your county freeholder, your, your, you know, your borough, whatever.
- But because one person might stand up at a parent PTA meeting and and give them the word.
Examples
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Also, the PTA is paying for our paintings to go up.
Academic text (2015) -
I'm on the PTA.
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Are you here for the PTA meeting?
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- We met at a PTA meeting a couple of weeks ago.
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I have a PTA meeting.
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So, I think that's all we need to discuss about the PTA.
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Mom, it's Mrs. Gillman from the PTA.
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We had two unsuccessful attempts to persuade the state PTA to engage on this issue.
Academic text (2011) -
The learning commons has become a hub for community events, such as monthly PTA meetings and guest speakers.
Academic text (2013) -
Are you here for the PTA meeting?
Surface Forms
Etymology
PTA stands for Parent-Teacher Association, from Parent 'mother or father', Teacher 'school teacher', and Association 'group'. So a PTA is a group where parents and teachers work together to support and improve a school.