The Mission of the Stanley Middle School PTA follows the mission of the national PTA organization. PTA (Parent Teacher Association) was founded in 1897 during a time when children worked in factories, mines, and in the streets. Co-founder Alice McLellan Birney helped drive the program nationwide with the philosophy: "Let us have no more croaking as to what cannot be done; let us see what can be done, and above all see that it is done." Today, PTA's mission is to1. To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community and place of worship 2. To raise the standards of home life 3. To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth 4. To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth 5. To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, an