{"id":26635,"date":"2024-09-19T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=26635"},"modified":"2024-09-19T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:11:31","slug":"parents-association-news-and-events-september-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2024\/09\/19\/parents-association-news-and-events-september-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Association News And Events September 19, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26637 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PAWP-2.png\" alt=\"PAWP\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Get ready for the Rainbow Club! <\/strong>The Rainbow Club is for any Lower School parents, faculty, and staff members who identify or have children that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. The group is being organized by MPA parent Rachael Weber and exists to have important conversations, create a close-knit community, and share resources with each other throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Rainbow Club will meet once a month, with the first meeting of the new year being Friday, September 20, at noon in the Panther Center. Please email Rachael at <strong><a href=\"mailto:rachweb89@gmail.com\">rachweb89@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong> with questions!<\/p>\n<p><em>Rachael Weber is an MPA parent with two children in Lower School who started The Rainbow Club in spring of 2024. She saw a need at MPA for a Lower School LGBTQ+ affinity group and has a personal passion for connecting people with others who help them feel seen and represented.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 20: Rainbow Club for Lower School Kick-off Meeting, 12-1 PM, Panther Den<\/p>\n<p>September 23: Staff Appreciation Day hosted by Grades 5 &amp; 6<\/p>\n<p>September 27: Middle School Quarterly Coffee, 8-9 AM, Porter Conference Room<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for the Rainbow Club! The Rainbow Club is for any Lower School parents, faculty, and staff members who identify or have children that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. The group is being organized by MPA parent Rachael Weber and exists to have important conversations, create a close-knit community, and share resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":26636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-school","category-current-families","category-parents-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26638,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions\/26638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}