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Our mission in PTA is “to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.” Advocacy has always been at the heart of what we do in PTA. If you can talk to your child’s teacher about a problem they are having in the classroom, you already know the basics of advocacy: talk to the person who can change the situation, share what the problem is, and ask them to fix it (possibly with your solution). The approach is the same when you advocate with a principal, a school board member, a state legislator, or a member of Congress.