Ahhh, I see. Thanks.
Follow the money. The National PTA takes $3.00 or close to it from every membership to a school PTA. Go to their website to read about the things they support and don’t support. They are remarkably similar to the NEA. Our oldest children first attended school where there was no PTA. They had a PATT. (parents and teachers together) When we moved, the next school had another name for their parent organization. We joined both of those organizations. It cost around $2.00 for membership. All dues stayed at the school. Then we moved again and had to deal with the PTA. They wanted $5.00/parent/child. We had four children in school at the time, and they wanted us to purchase a membership four times in order for them to say that each of our children had a supporting parent. I thought that was crazy, so I started looking into the National PTA and the nonsense behind it. I refused to give a dime to the national organization ever since. I did participate in school activities and volunteer to do things at the school.