Tonight's PAC meeting has been cancelled, as have all remaining PAC meetings for this year or until further notice. Karl and I have spent countless hours creating a calendar, finding and scheduling speakers, devising ways together with our Directors to do more outreach to our families - and other than the Christmas party, there have been a total of 3 other families besides our own who have participated in the other meetings since September.
We're busy people, ladies and gentlemen, and have given our time freely and without hesitation for the good of this group. If this is the response that we can count on, then we feel our time is being wasted. Further, it is embarassing to our districts to schedule speakers only to have them arrive and have no one show up.
No one understands the challenges we all face with our children better than we do; we get it! It is often impossible to find the time and the respite support to get out of our homes for any amount of time. When we do have the opportunity, we sure don't want to spend it at meetings. But we have also both seen over many years the benefits that groups like PACs can have to families and districts. We believe in the power of PACs when there is active participation and commitment by its members. Without participation, however, we have nothing. Even this blog has been virtually unused; a tool that we hoped would help assist us because you don't have to leave your home to connect with others.
We are both happy to assist families where we can and we wish you all the best for the remainder of the school year. If anyone would like to continue our efforts, please contact your district Special Ed. Director.
Thank you.
Cheryl Chan
