{"id":375,"date":"2015-11-04T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pay4schoolstuff.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T18:24:09","slug":"how-to-avoid-a-pto-pta-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pay4schoolstuff.com\/blog\/how-to-avoid-a-pto-pta-horror-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Avoid A PTO \/ PTA Horror Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a story we hear all too often, and hope never happens to our organizations: late last August the president of the South Middle School <strong>PTA<\/strong> in Arlington Heights, VA was charged with stealing funds from the PTA\u2019s accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former PTA president, who <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/suburbs\/arlington-heights\/ct-pta-theft-guilty-met-20141222-story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ultimately pled guilty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to charges of forgery and theft, was using checks, totaling $1,408.00, from the PTA\u2019s account for personal use and depositing funds into her personal bank account.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With so much money flying through PTA and PTO leaders\u2019 hands, it\u2019s easy to imagine that this could happen much more frequently than it does. It\u2019s a credit only to the honesty and integrity of board members that funds aren\u2019t always going missing. Thankfully, this particular organization had a system of checks and balances in place so that they were able to fairly quickly recognize that something was amiss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to making your organization easier to manage and more convenient for parents, security is another feature that Pay4SchoolStuff.com provides to our users. Payments being made through the system are automatically deposited into your organization\u2019s bank account, and cash never needs to physically change hands. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To check out more ways that Pay4SchoolStuff.com can help your organization, check out these posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Np66E8\">4 Tips to Increase Attendance at Meetings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1KByv3x\">Increasing Engagement at Meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pay4schoolstuff.com\">www.pay4schoolstuff.com<\/a> or call 877-397-2937 to discuss how easy it is to avoid the temptations and hassles of handling money, checks, deposits and forms manually. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a story we hear all too often, and hope never happens to our organizations: late last August the president of the South Middle School PTA in Arlington Heights, VA was charged with stealing funds from the PTA\u2019s accounts. 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