In addition to a classroom parent committee in educational institutions, to help the teaching staff and protect the rights of students , an all-school parent committee is also created. Somehow their functions are similar, but the biggest difference in the scale of activity, since a classy parent committee can act and make decisions only within its class, and the school-wide - solves problems and controls the entire school.
To understand what is the difference between them, in this article we will study the rights and responsibilities of the parent committee in the school, and what role it plays in the work of the school.
In the main legislative documents (the Law on Education and the model clause) on the organization of the activities of general education institutions, it is clearly stated that it is necessary to organize a school for the whole school, whose activity is regulated by the approved director of the Regulation on the Parents' Committee of the School.
Organization of the activities of the parent committee in the school
- The structure includes representatives of parents from each class, selected in classroom parent meetings.
- At the beginning of the school year, the school's parent committee draws up a work plan for the whole period and at the end necessarily provides a report on the work done and plans for the next.
- Meetings of the parent committee of the school should be conducted at least three times for the entire school year.
- The chairman, secretary and treasurer are elected from among the members of the committee.
- The list of issues discussed at the meetings, as well as the decisions taken by the school's parent committee, are recorded in the protocol and communicated to the rest of the parents by class. Decisions are made by a simple majority of votes.
Rights and duties of the school's parent committee
All the rights and duties of the school's general school committee coincide with the functions of the parent class committee, only to them is added:
- control over the quality of nutrition and the implementation of sanitary and hygienic requirements in the educational institution;
- the opportunity to contact the school administration with proposals for the reorganization of the educational process, for explanations on the issues of interest;
- as an organ of self-education to take part in the discussion of local school acts;
- to apply to local executive bodies and local self-government bodies for providing financial and logistical support to the general educational institution;
- appoint extraordinary parent meetings;
- to make proposals for the provision of material assistance to students from disadvantaged families and the appointment of incentives for students who excelled in their studies, winners of the Olympiads or sports competitions;
- to create funds for charitable assistance of parents (according to the existing legislation, this can only be dealt with by the parents' committee of the school), to control income and rational use of funds from it;
- Coordinate the activities of parent committees of all classes: hear reports on the activities of the parent parental committees and
Assist in improving their work; - To conduct explanatory work with parents, as legal representatives of underage students about their rights and duties.
The main objective of the mandatory creation of parents' committees in all schools is to strengthen the links between parents, teachers, public organizations and authorities in order to ensure unity in the upbringing process of the younger generation and to protect the rights of both students and school employees.