February looks to be a whirlwind of PTA advocacy; how better to warm up and escape the brutal cold we've faced this winter than by breaking a sweat to win funding for our students and schools?

I'm no gambler (sorry, Maryland Live!), but if YOU, our PTA leaders, members, and supporters reading this will put in a couple nights this month at County Council CIP hearings and Maryland PTA Night in Annapolis, I'd bet we just might get the nearly $2 billion we require from our county and state to build the schools our kids need now. Not ten or twenty years from now, but within the next five years. This is our opportunity. This is your opportunity. You can't count on someone else to show up; not this time.  Either you seize the moment, or "You get what you get and you don't get upset."  I can say we are 50,000 members strong all I want--we are, and I will--but politicians actually need to see you, too. Show them PTA. 

So join me this week in Rockville.  And come out again on the evening of Thursday, February 13th to Annapolis; we've got five buses coming from all parts of Montgomery County so you don't even have to drive if you register!  Bring your friends, family, and students.  Wear your school spirit finest.  And, make a difference.

Janette Gilman