Class fund non-participants: where do you think the party food comes from??

[Anonymous]

haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

If funds allow, say yes. If not, politely decline and say you can bring snacks to supplement the lunch the kids are already bringing/buying. This is not rocket science.

[Anonymous]

You ladies getting all worked up about pizza is crazy. Wait till you have terns and you can no longer control what your child eats. I’m afraid your heads will explode. Lol!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

In my DC's schools, the teachers were the ones avoiding parties as much as possible.

The problem here is not parents who don't want to pay for party food all year round, it is the party teacher animal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

In my DC's schools, the teachers were the ones avoiding parties as much as possible.

The problem here is not parents who don't want to pay for party food all year round, it is the party teacher animal.

2 parties a year where the kids eat pizza and socialize isn’t really the teacher’s idea of a fun party, I’m guessing. This is for her class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

In my DC's schools, the teachers were the ones avoiding parties as much as possible.

The problem here is not parents who don't want to pay for party food all year round, it is the party teacher animal.

2 parties a year where the kids eat pizza and socialize isn’t really the teacher’s idea of a fun party, I’m guessing. This is for her class.

I don’t get all these lunchtime parties. Our school has parties 1.5 hours before dismissal (after lunch) so parents can see their kids in their element and then take them home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

In my DC's schools, the teachers were the ones avoiding parties as much as possible.

The problem here is not parents who don't want to pay for party food all year round, it is the party teacher animal.

2 parties a year where the kids eat pizza and socialize isn’t really the teacher’s idea of a fun party, I’m guessing. This is for her class.

I don’t get all these lunchtime parties. Our school has parties 1.5 hours before dismissal (after lunch) so parents can see their kids in their element and then take them home.

You must have young kids. In upper elementary, parents rarely go to the parties. If they do, they signed up to volunteer to help serve food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her post was more focused on people not even sending in notebooks that the teacher asked for never mind party money. And that people should be more willing to help the teachers.

The whole first paragraph concerned parties and that's where she said people should pay up if they can afford beginning of the year supplies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

In my DC's schools, the teachers were the ones avoiding parties as much as possible.

The problem here is not parents who don't want to pay for party food all year round, it is the party teacher animal.

2 parties a year where the kids eat pizza and socialize isn’t really the teacher’s idea of a fun party, I’m guessing. This is for her class.

I don’t get all these lunchtime parties. Our school has parties 1.5 hours before dismissal (after lunch) so parents can see their kids in their element and then take them home.

I have 5th and 8th graders. No lunch parties at all!

You must have young kids. In upper elementary, parents rarely go to the parties. If they do, they signed up to volunteer to help serve food.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

In my DC's schools, the teachers were the ones avoiding parties as much as possible.

The problem here is not parents who don't want to pay for party food all year round, it is the party teacher animal.

2 parties a year where the kids eat pizza and socialize isn’t really the teacher’s idea of a fun party, I’m guessing. This is for her class.

I don’t get all these lunchtime parties. Our school has parties 1.5 hours before dismissal (after lunch) so parents can see their kids in their element and then take them home.

You must have young kids. In upper elementary, parents rarely go to the parties. If they do, they signed up to volunteer to help serve food.

I have 5th and 8th graders. No lunch parties at all!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

If funds allow, say yes. If not, politely decline and say you can bring snacks to supplement the lunch the kids are already bringing/buying. This is not rocket science.

+1. The answer isn't browbeating or shaming parents into providing the funds. If it is that important to you not to tell the teacher you don't have money for this, then you should pay for it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

If funds allow, say yes. If not, politely decline and say you can bring snacks to supplement the lunch the kids are already bringing/buying. This is not rocket science.

+1. The answer isn't browbeating or shaming parents into providing the funds. If it is that important to you not to tell the teacher you don't have money for this, then you should pay for it.

-1 The majority of parents can afford the class funds requested each year. We all know this. We know where they vacation. We know what they drive and where they live. We know what shoes their kids wear and what sunglasses they have. The point is it is frustrating when they don't contribute to the class fund. Yep, it's voluntary but it helps their kid as much as the rest of the class. No one can make them. It doesn't bother me that much but it is annoying. I agree no one should be shamed or browbeaten, but I also agree that it isn't right that a family who can easily afford to contribute $35 a year to the class fund just doesn't because they don't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

If funds allow, say yes. If not, politely decline and say you can bring snacks to supplement the lunch the kids are already bringing/buying. This is not rocket science.

+1. The answer isn't browbeating or shaming parents into providing the funds. If it is that important to you not to tell the teacher you don't have money for this, then you should pay for it.

-1 The majority of parents can afford the class funds requested each year. We all know this. We know where they vacation. We know what they drive and where they live. We know what shoes their kids wear and what sunglasses they have. The point is it is frustrating when they don't contribute to the class fund. Yep, it's voluntary but it helps their kid as much as the rest of the class. No one can make them. It doesn't bother me that much but it is annoying. I agree no one should be shamed or browbeaten, but I also agree that it isn't right that a family who can easily afford to contribute $35 a year to the class fund just doesn't because they don't.

The issue isn't people contributing. There are always people contributing. This topic was started as the room mom blew through her budget early in the year and didn't plan well. She spent way to much on things that made no sense (Pizza is fine as long as it in the budget or one/two families sign up and donate it through sign up genius).

The big problem is there is a huge variation in what happens in each classroom and kids talk and get upset. For some of these kids, it is the only parties they get so it is important to them. Just because your kids go to lots of parties, other kids do not which makes it all the more important to do a nice party for those kids. Its easy to do with little money but the room parent has to be willing to put in the effort and many are not (and those people are the ones who insist on being room parent and doing it all).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:haven't read through this whole thread, but I think some of these parents really need to get their own lives. don't you have anything better to think about than throwing pizza parties for your kid's classroom?

I’m a room parent for an upper elementary classroom. The teacher asked to two class parties this year during lunchtime and includes pizza. She even told me where to order and how many of cheese and how many of pepperoni I should order. How would you like me to handle this?

If funds allow, say yes. If not, politely decline and say you can bring snacks to supplement the lunch the kids are already bringing/buying. This is not rocket science.

+1. The answer isn't browbeating or shaming parents into providing the funds. If it is that important to you not to tell the teacher you don't have money for this, then you should pay for it.

-1 The majority of parents can afford the class funds requested each year. We all know this. We know where they vacation. We know what they drive and where they live. We know what shoes their kids wear and what sunglasses they have. The point is it is frustrating when they don't contribute to the class fund. Yep, it's voluntary but it helps their kid as much as the rest of the class. No one can make them. It doesn't bother me that much but it is annoying. I agree no one should be shamed or browbeaten, but I also agree that it isn't right that a family who can easily afford to contribute $35 a year to the class fund just doesn't because they don't.

You ostensibly recognized the contribution is voluntary, but the rest of the post makes clear you really don't treat it as such.

That, and itnis none of your business how else they spend THEIR money.