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Anonymous wrote:We love Nottingham, but did not have any special needs to consider. Last year was a rough school year, no thanks to APS policies during the pandemic. The N. Arlington elementaries are all very similar, so not sure I’d agree with the “Nottingham or bust” poster, but it is a nice school with caring teachers and an involved community. Some of the parents can be a little much, but there are all sorts and you can find your people.

Nottingham and Tuckahoe have a better parent community than Discovery. Partly due to Discovery being a newer school (less time to build traditions, community) and partly to COVID putting a halt to most events.

I think Discovery parents would disagree. Discovery has been around a while now and the parents I know there have been lovely, involved, and concerned about schools beyond their own.

I am one, and that's my opinion.

Nottingham parent scene is cliquey.

I haven’t found this to be true at all except for the current year’s pta.

They are nice individually, but as a group very very cliquey. Maybe if I lived on Potomac/Pokomoke it would be better.

Shade!

Not sure what this means, but that’s where most of the pta moms live. In that part of the Nottingham district. They are neighborhood friends.

The PP was “shading” aka calling out the moms on those streets as cliquey in a very passive aggressive way.

Nope not the moms on those streets. The pta moms on those streets. TBH, Nottingham has not been great for my kid, and while I do volunteer more than most others, I do not want to be on the pta. Now can we talk about the Halloween party that they are just now soliciting donations for? Just give it up. It cannot be thrown together in 3 weeks.

Are you talking about the fall social? That’s an annual tradition this time of year, not some new party they are trying to throw together at the last moment. The pandemic disrupted it the past few years so if you are relative new to the school it can see why you wouldn’t be aware of that, but your unfamiliarity with things is not a reason to trash the organizers.

It isn’t a last minute event? I just got an email asking for donations for the auction - and given one week to procure items. The auction is two weeks away. This is laughably late to the game. If this isn’t the very definition of last minute, I don’t know what is.

I don’t have any inside knowledge, but since they were still asking for volunteers a few weeks ago, they probably had a hard time finding people who would agree to organize it, which then set the planning back.

Which brings us back to the earlier point about the PTA being insular. I pay attention to all the school emails and didn’t see it on the schedule until a few weeks ago. Cut your losses and reschedule the event - it’s an embarrassment at this point.

It's been in the emails since early September. I just found one in my gmail from 9/6. I will say that it seems like they've been short on details and the fundraising asks seem late. But the date has been out there since school started.

9/6 was a few weeks ago.

9/6 was more than 4 weeks ago. That's more than one month ago now. School began just two weeks before the 9/6 email. When would you like to have received the fundraising/volunteer solicitation so that you (1) would have had sufficient notice and (2) would have actually read the email and paid attention for an event more than a month away?

It might when been buried in one of the super long emails, but tickets are not on sale and they are busy now asking for things to auction. Usually the room
Parents (yes I’ve been one) are coming up with idea for a class auction item. I have not heard of this either, but maybe our class mom is just buying dont high with class funds. I have no idea.

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Anonymous wrote:We love Nottingham, but did not have any special needs to consider. Last year was a rough school year, no thanks to APS policies during the pandemic. The N. Arlington elementaries are all very similar, so not sure I’d agree with the “Nottingham or bust” poster, but it is a nice school with caring teachers and an involved community. Some of the parents can be a little much, but there are all sorts and you can find your people.

Nottingham and Tuckahoe have a better parent community than Discovery. Partly due to Discovery being a newer school (less time to build traditions, community) and partly to COVID putting a halt to most events.

I think Discovery parents would disagree. Discovery has been around a while now and the parents I know there have been lovely, involved, and concerned about schools beyond their own.

I am one, and that's my opinion.

Nottingham parent scene is cliquey.

I haven’t found this to be true at all except for the current year’s pta.

They are nice individually, but as a group very very cliquey. Maybe if I lived on Potomac/Pokomoke it would be better.

Shade!

Not sure what this means, but that’s where most of the pta moms live. In that part of the Nottingham district. They are neighborhood friends.

The PP was “shading” aka calling out the moms on those streets as cliquey in a very passive aggressive way.

Nope not the moms on those streets. The pta moms on those streets. TBH, Nottingham has not been great for my kid, and while I do volunteer more than most others, I do not want to be on the pta. Now can we talk about the Halloween party that they are just now soliciting donations for? Just give it up. It cannot be thrown together in 3 weeks.

Are you talking about the fall social? That’s an annual tradition this time of year, not some new party they are trying to throw together at the last moment. The pandemic disrupted it the past few years so if you are relative new to the school it can see why you wouldn’t be aware of that, but your unfamiliarity with things is not a reason to trash the organizers.

It isn’t a last minute event? I just got an email asking for donations for the auction - and given one week to procure items. The auction is two weeks away. This is laughably late to the game. If this isn’t the very definition of last minute, I don’t know what is.

I don’t have any inside knowledge, but since they were still asking for volunteers a few weeks ago, they probably had a hard time finding people who would agree to organize it, which then set the planning back.

Which brings us back to the earlier point about the PTA being insular. I pay attention to all the school emails and didn’t see it on the schedule until a few weeks ago. Cut your losses and reschedule the event - it’s an embarrassment at this point.

It's been in the emails since early September. I just found one in my gmail from 9/6. I will say that it seems like they've been short on details and the fundraising asks seem late. But the date has been out there since school started.

9/6 was a few weeks ago.

9/6 was more than 4 weeks ago. That's more than one month ago now. School began just two weeks before the 9/6 email. When would you like to have received the fundraising/volunteer solicitation so that you (1) would have had sufficient notice and (2) would have actually read the email and paid attention for an event more than a month away?

It might when been buried in one of the super long emails, but tickets are not on sale and they are busy now asking for things to auction. Usually the room
Parents (yes I’ve been one) are coming up with idea for a class auction item. I have not heard of this either, but maybe our class mom is just buying dont high with class funds. I have no idea.

DP. Sounds like you should volunteer to help organize the event since you know everything about how it should be done.

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Anonymous wrote:We love Nottingham, but did not have any special needs to consider. Last year was a rough school year, no thanks to APS policies during the pandemic. The N. Arlington elementaries are all very similar, so not sure I’d agree with the “Nottingham or bust” poster, but it is a nice school with caring teachers and an involved community. Some of the parents can be a little much, but there are all sorts and you can find your people.

Nottingham and Tuckahoe have a better parent community than Discovery. Partly due to Discovery being a newer school (less time to build traditions, community) and partly to COVID putting a halt to most events.

I think Discovery parents would disagree. Discovery has been around a while now and the parents I know there have been lovely, involved, and concerned about schools beyond their own.

I am one, and that's my opinion.

Nottingham parent scene is cliquey.

I haven’t found this to be true at all except for the current year’s pta.

They are nice individually, but as a group very very cliquey. Maybe if I lived on Potomac/Pokomoke it would be better.

Shade!

Not sure what this means, but that’s where most of the pta moms live. In that part of the Nottingham district. They are neighborhood friends.

The PP was “shading” aka calling out the moms on those streets as cliquey in a very passive aggressive way.

Nope not the moms on those streets. The pta moms on those streets. TBH, Nottingham has not been great for my kid, and while I do volunteer more than most others, I do not want to be on the pta. Now can we talk about the Halloween party that they are just now soliciting donations for? Just give it up. It cannot be thrown together in 3 weeks.

Are you talking about the fall social? That’s an annual tradition this time of year, not some new party they are trying to throw together at the last moment. The pandemic disrupted it the past few years so if you are relative new to the school it can see why you wouldn’t be aware of that, but your unfamiliarity with things is not a reason to trash the organizers.

It isn’t a last minute event? I just got an email asking for donations for the auction - and given one week to procure items. The auction is two weeks away. This is laughably late to the game. If this isn’t the very definition of last minute, I don’t know what is.

I don’t have any inside knowledge, but since they were still asking for volunteers a few weeks ago, they probably had a hard time finding people who would agree to organize it, which then set the planning back.

Which brings us back to the earlier point about the PTA being insular. I pay attention to all the school emails and didn’t see it on the schedule until a few weeks ago. Cut your losses and reschedule the event - it’s an embarrassment at this point.

It's been in the emails since early September. I just found one in my gmail from 9/6. I will say that it seems like they've been short on details and the fundraising asks seem late. But the date has been out there since school started.

9/6 was a few weeks ago.

9/6 was more than 4 weeks ago. That's more than one month ago now. School began just two weeks before the 9/6 email. When would you like to have received the fundraising/volunteer solicitation so that you (1) would have had sufficient notice and (2) would have actually read the email and paid attention for an event more than a month away?

Solicitations should have been sent way before today for an event at the end of the month.

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Anonymous wrote:We love Nottingham, but did not have any special needs to consider. Last year was a rough school year, no thanks to APS policies during the pandemic. The N. Arlington elementaries are all very similar, so not sure I’d agree with the “Nottingham or bust” poster, but it is a nice school with caring teachers and an involved community. Some of the parents can be a little much, but there are all sorts and you can find your people.

Nottingham and Tuckahoe have a better parent community than Discovery. Partly due to Discovery being a newer school (less time to build traditions, community) and partly to COVID putting a halt to most events.

I think Discovery parents would disagree. Discovery has been around a while now and the parents I know there have been lovely, involved, and concerned about schools beyond their own.

I am one, and that's my opinion.

Nottingham parent scene is cliquey.

I haven’t found this to be true at all except for the current year’s pta.

They are nice individually, but as a group very very cliquey. Maybe if I lived on Potomac/Pokomoke it would be better.

Shade!

Not sure what this means, but that’s where most of the pta moms live. In that part of the Nottingham district. They are neighborhood friends.

The PP was “shading” aka calling out the moms on those streets as cliquey in a very passive aggressive way.

Nope not the moms on those streets. The pta moms on those streets. TBH, Nottingham has not been great for my kid, and while I do volunteer more than most others, I do not want to be on the pta. Now can we talk about the Halloween party that they are just now soliciting donations for? Just give it up. It cannot be thrown together in 3 weeks.

Are you talking about the fall social? That’s an annual tradition this time of year, not some new party they are trying to throw together at the last moment. The pandemic disrupted it the past few years so if you are relative new to the school it can see why you wouldn’t be aware of that, but your unfamiliarity with things is not a reason to trash the organizers.

It isn’t a last minute event? I just got an email asking for donations for the auction - and given one week to procure items. The auction is two weeks away. This is laughably late to the game. If this isn’t the very definition of last minute, I don’t know what is.

I don’t have any inside knowledge, but since they were still asking for volunteers a few weeks ago, they probably had a hard time finding people who would agree to organize it, which then set the planning back.

Which brings us back to the earlier point about the PTA being insular. I pay attention to all the school emails and didn’t see it on the schedule until a few weeks ago. Cut your losses and reschedule the event - it’s an embarrassment at this point.

It's been in the emails since early September. I just found one in my gmail from 9/6. I will say that it seems like they've been short on details and the fundraising asks seem late. But the date has been out there since school started.

9/6 was a few weeks ago.

9/6 was more than 4 weeks ago. That's more than one month ago now. School began just two weeks before the 9/6 email. When would you like to have received the fundraising/volunteer solicitation so that you (1) would have had sufficient notice and (2) would have actually read the email and paid attention for an event more than a month away?

Solicitations should have been sent way before today for an event at the end of the month.

Sounds like you should volunteer to help organize the event since you know everything about how it should be done.

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Anonymous wrote:We love Nottingham, but did not have any special needs to consider. Last year was a rough school year, no thanks to APS policies during the pandemic. The N. Arlington elementaries are all very similar, so not sure I’d agree with the “Nottingham or bust” poster, but it is a nice school with caring teachers and an involved community. Some of the parents can be a little much, but there are all sorts and you can find your people.

Nottingham and Tuckahoe have a better parent community than Discovery. Partly due to Discovery being a newer school (less time to build traditions, community) and partly to COVID putting a halt to most events.

I think Discovery parents would disagree. Discovery has been around a while now and the parents I know there have been lovely, involved, and concerned about schools beyond their own.

I am one, and that's my opinion.

Nottingham parent scene is cliquey.

I haven’t found this to be true at all except for the current year’s pta.

They are nice individually, but as a group very very cliquey. Maybe if I lived on Potomac/Pokomoke it would be better.

Shade!

Not sure what this means, but that’s where most of the pta moms live. In that part of the Nottingham district. They are neighborhood friends.

The PP was “shading” aka calling out the moms on those streets as cliquey in a very passive aggressive way.

Nope not the moms on those streets. The pta moms on those streets. TBH, Nottingham has not been great for my kid, and while I do volunteer more than most others, I do not want to be on the pta. Now can we talk about the Halloween party that they are just now soliciting donations for? Just give it up. It cannot be thrown together in 3 weeks.

Are you talking about the fall social? That’s an annual tradition this time of year, not some new party they are trying to throw together at the last moment. The pandemic disrupted it the past few years so if you are relative new to the school it can see why you wouldn’t be aware of that, but your unfamiliarity with things is not a reason to trash the organizers.

It isn’t a last minute event? I just got an email asking for donations for the auction - and given one week to procure items. The auction is two weeks away. This is laughably late to the game. If this isn’t the very definition of last minute, I don’t know what is.

I don’t have any inside knowledge, but since they were still asking for volunteers a few weeks ago, they probably had a hard time finding people who would agree to organize it, which then set the planning back.

Which brings us back to the earlier point about the PTA being insular. I pay attention to all the school emails and didn’t see it on the schedule until a few weeks ago. Cut your losses and reschedule the event - it’s an embarrassment at this point.

It's been in the emails since early September. I just found one in my gmail from 9/6. I will say that it seems like they've been short on details and the fundraising asks seem late. But the date has been out there since school started.

9/6 was a few weeks ago.

9/6 was more than 4 weeks ago. That's more than one month ago now. School began just two weeks before the 9/6 email. When would you like to have received the fundraising/volunteer solicitation so that you (1) would have had sufficient notice and (2) would have actually read the email and paid attention for an event more than a month away?

DP. School began 8/29, 8 days before the 9/6 email. Two weeks would be 14 days.

Even more to my point - it was shortly after the start of school, which means they were on top of it from the start. Instead of bickering about one v. two weeks, answer the dang question!

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I’ve never been so happy that we’re not in the Nottingham district. Wow are the same people posting over and over or there really this many people bickering about a PTA event for the community?

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Anonymous wrote:We love Nottingham, but did not have any special needs to consider. Last year was a rough school year, no thanks to APS policies during the pandemic. The N. Arlington elementaries are all very similar, so not sure I’d agree with the “Nottingham or bust” poster, but it is a nice school with caring teachers and an involved community. Some of the parents can be a little much, but there are all sorts and you can find your people.

Nottingham and Tuckahoe have a better parent community than Discovery. Partly due to Discovery being a newer school (less time to build traditions, community) and partly to COVID putting a halt to most events.

I think Discovery parents would disagree. Discovery has been around a while now and the parents I know there have been lovely, involved, and concerned about schools beyond their own.

I am one, and that's my opinion.

Nottingham parent scene is cliquey.

I haven’t found this to be true at all except for the current year’s pta.

They are nice individually, but as a group very very cliquey. Maybe if I lived on Potomac/Pokomoke it would be better.

Shade!

Not sure what this means, but that’s where most of the pta moms live. In that part of the Nottingham district. They are neighborhood friends.

The PP was “shading” aka calling out the moms on those streets as cliquey in a very passive aggressive way.

Nope not the moms on those streets. The pta moms on those streets. TBH, Nottingham has not been great for my kid, and while I do volunteer more than most others, I do not want to be on the pta. Now can we talk about the Halloween party that they are just now soliciting donations for? Just give it up. It cannot be thrown together in 3 weeks.

Are you talking about the fall social? That’s an annual tradition this time of year, not some new party they are trying to throw together at the last moment. The pandemic disrupted it the past few years so if you are relative new to the school it can see why you wouldn’t be aware of that, but your unfamiliarity with things is not a reason to trash the organizers.

It isn’t a last minute event? I just got an email asking for donations for the auction - and given one week to procure items. The auction is two weeks away. This is laughably late to the game. If this isn’t the very definition of last minute, I don’t know what is.

I don’t have any inside knowledge, but since they were still asking for volunteers a few weeks ago, they probably had a hard time finding people who would agree to organize it, which then set the planning back.

Which brings us back to the earlier point about the PTA being insular. I pay attention to all the school emails and didn’t see it on the schedule until a few weeks ago. Cut your losses and reschedule the event - it’s an embarrassment at this point.

It's been in the emails since early September. I just found one in my gmail from 9/6. I will say that it seems like they've been short on details and the fundraising asks seem late. But the date has been out there since school started.

9/6 was a few weeks ago.

9/6 was more than 4 weeks ago. That's more than one month ago now. School began just two weeks before the 9/6 email. When would you like to have received the fundraising/volunteer solicitation so that you (1) would have had sufficient notice and (2) would have actually read the email and paid attention for an event more than a month away?

Solicitations should have been sent way before today for an event at the end of the month.

Sounds like you should volunteer to help organize the event since you know everything about how it should be done.

Sounds like members of the PTA found this thread and are being defensive.

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I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

Oh wow, you're one of those. You realize that SAHM's kids go to all the same sports and extracurricular activities that your kids do (but they drive them instead of relying on a nanny, or neighbor), they still cook the dinners, help with the homework, etc just like working moms. They generally also have other kids at home they're taking care of, and even if not, do you think they have 8 hours to dedicate to PTA? Where exactly does this extra time come from that you are mentioning?

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

Oh wow, you're one of those. You realize that SAHM's kids go to all the same sports and extracurricular activities that your kids do (but they drive them instead of relying on a nanny, or neighbor), they still cook the dinners, help with the homework, etc just like working moms. They generally also have other kids at home they're taking care of, and even if not, do you think they have 8 hours to dedicate to PTA? Where exactly does this extra time come from that you are mentioning?

From not having to go to work 8-10 hours a day. Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

Oh wow, you're one of those. You realize that SAHM's kids go to all the same sports and extracurricular activities that your kids do (but they drive them instead of relying on a nanny, or neighbor), they still cook the dinners, help with the homework, etc just like working moms. They generally also have other kids at home they're taking care of, and even if not, do you think they have 8 hours to dedicate to PTA? Where exactly does this extra time come from that you are mentioning?

NP. Is this a real question?

This is why the mommy wars are a thing. I’d be fine to let everyone make their own choices if the SAHMs didn’t post weird things like this.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

Oh wow, you're one of those. You realize that SAHM's kids go to all the same sports and extracurricular activities that your kids do (but they drive them instead of relying on a nanny, or neighbor), they still cook the dinners, help with the homework, etc just like working moms. They generally also have other kids at home they're taking care of, and even if not, do you think they have 8 hours to dedicate to PTA? Where exactly does this extra time come from that you are mentioning?

Help me understand this. Your a SAHM wanting credit for taking care of your own kids and cooking a meal just like working moms do while you’re not at work!

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

Oh wow, you're one of those. You realize that SAHM's kids go to all the same sports and extracurricular activities that your kids do (but they drive them instead of relying on a nanny, or neighbor), they still cook the dinners, help with the homework, etc just like working moms. They generally also have other kids at home they're taking care of, and even if not, do you think they have 8 hours to dedicate to PTA? Where exactly does this extra time come from that you are mentioning?

Help me understand this. Your a SAHM wanting credit for taking care of your own kids and cooking a meal just like working moms do while you’re not at work!

No- I’m trying to understand where all this free time is. PP says she has 0 free hours Mon-fri to do stuff for the kids school. If SAHM had 10 free hours a day, when is it? 😂 the things you outsource, SAHM DO. Sure, there’s time to volunteer more than someone with a rigid work schedule, but if you think there’s nothing going on between 9 and 340 you’re mistaken.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like this topic has come up again and again, not in relation to NES, and it comes up in conversations with my other working mom friends. Working out of the home and stay at home moms have very different relationships with their calendars. The fact that SAHMs tend to run PTA activities, and use their sense of time, ends up making it hard for working moms to participate as much as they might be able to. For a SAHM, 3 weeks notice might actually equal 21 days notice, depending on some variables. If you give me 3 weeks notice for something, that equals 6 days, at best, because I am occupied during the work week. If you are at my son’s elementary and tell me Monday about something on Friday, that equals 0 days notice.

Oh wow, you're one of those. You realize that SAHM's kids go to all the same sports and extracurricular activities that your kids do (but they drive them instead of relying on a nanny, or neighbor), they still cook the dinners, help with the homework, etc just like working moms. They generally also have other kids at home they're taking care of, and even if not, do you think they have 8 hours to dedicate to PTA? Where exactly does this extra time come from that you are mentioning?

Help me understand this. Your a SAHM wanting credit for taking care of your own kids and cooking a meal just like working moms do while you’re not at work!

No- I’m trying to understand where all this free time is. PP says she has 0 free hours Mon-fri to do stuff for the kids school. If SAHM had 10 free hours a day, when is it? 😂 the things you outsource, SAHM DO. Sure, there’s time to volunteer more than someone with a rigid work schedule, but if you think there’s nothing going on between 9 and 340 you’re mistaken.

Most of the SAHMs we know have a House Cleaner, Lawn Service and a Handy Man too...must be hard to schedule all of those services.