PS 130M - PARENTS ASSOCIATION
一三零小學家長會
143 Baxter Street Room 101, New York, NY 10013
Tel: 212-226-8072
Email: ps130mpa@yahoo.com Website: ps130pa.blogspot.com
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Parents Association Board Members:
Co-Presidents:
Co-Treasurers: Gloria Tsang, Karen Ma
Co-Secretaries: Amy Hu. Sally Chu
Parents Association Events Coordinator: Lisa Wong
Parent Coordinator: Diane Chong
Parents Association Email: ps130mpa@yahoo.com
Parents Association Website: http://ps130pa.blogspot.com
Minutes to PS
130M General Meeting
March 3, 2022
Attendance: Mr. Renny Fong, Kaitlin
Fuchs, Damian Driver, Kathy Leung, Lisa Wong, Yvonne Moy, Gloria Tsang, Yanna
Xu, Amy Hu, Sally Chu, Jennie Yin, Ming Jing, Charlie, Michelle Ng, Alice Chen,
Yuki, Jayden Chan, Lily Wai- Lee, and 3 other participants (see attendance on
record)
Meeting Commence: 8:46am
Translator: Ms. Nicklas
1. PA updates by Co- president, Kaitlin Fuchs
a. Welcomes everyone and introduces
the executive board members
b. Sends out attendance link to
be complete by all participants in the chat via zoom
c. Reminds everyone that we all volunteer our time and work to support and carry out administration goals with fundraising, meetings, and time.
2. Kaitlin – reviews upcoming
event dates for March
a. Virtual Parent teacher
conference on March 3, 2022 – Half day for students
b. Bake Sale – Wednesday - March
9, 2022
c. ELA State testing – Tuesday –
March 29 to March 31, 2022
3. Review February 3, 2022,
Minutes – Does not need to be voted in.
Approved and placed on record
4. Review of February 3, 2022,
Treasury Report – approved and placed on record. Also posted on PA Blog.
5. We hosted a Chinese New Year
Show in February, we have CDs and Flash drives for sale of the show. Please
reach out to Lisa in the PA for purchase. Sales helps the PA and it show cases
our culture.
6. March 8, 2022, at 6:30pm to 7:30pm there will be
a district 2 town hall meeting with Chancellor Banks. Links are in the PA blog – https://learndoe.org/cec/ you must register to attend.
7. Ongoing fundraisers – Kaitlin
goes over 3 links for donations
c. Donors Choose:
8. Principal’s Remarks
a. Mr. R. Fong – Thanks Katilin
and Wei Min translating and the PA for their support.
b. Thanks to the PA and the
community we were able to raise $20k from vaccinations incentives.
c. The New Chancellor has been
on the job about 8 weeks now and I’m sure there will be trickledown effect
for any changes down the road. Yesterday chancellor Banks made a speech that
was about 6/7-page long transcript of his envisions for the schools. The
transcript will be sent out to parents. He wants to increase G&T. P.S. 130
still has 3 Kindergarten G&T classes, which helps with enrollment.
d. Middle school deadlines were
pushed back but thanks to Ms. Levanoni for helping all the 5th
graders get enrolled in middle school.
e. End of March – ELA Testing
from the 29th to the 31st.
f. Tips on preparing for the ELA
testing
i. Getting
enough rest before the test
ii. Having
a good mental state by just telling yourself to do your best. My mother, God
rest her soul, always told me “Just do your best”.
iii. Stamina
– one of the best things for testing is having good stamina and you get that by
practicing and reading longer periods of time. Without this its harder to focus
on testing.
g. Mr. R. Fong thanks to all the
families for being the best and our PA for the Lunar New Year Programs. Ms.
Bradford for helping and doing a good job for the world to see.
h. Masks – Monday March 7, 2022,
they are going to make masks optional for indoors and outdoors. We shall see
how things go and everyone feels, but it might take some time to phase out.
i. This might be our last
virtual meeting. We shall see how things go and if numbers are still low, we
might have in person meetings. We will slowly let parents back into the school.
j. Thank you, Ms. Nicklas, for
making me sound better and for doing this remotely.
Closing time: 9:08am
Next General Meeting: April 7, 2022 at 8:45am
