How intense are the parents at your charter?

[Anonymous]

Very or not at all? How much second-guessing of the teachers and staff, or micro-managing from the parent perspective? How demanding?

[Anonymous]

We have a very involved parent community. They are mostly chill though we have a few doozies who are pretty intense and impossible to please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a very involved parent community. They are mostly chill though we have a few doozies who are pretty intense and impossible to please.

Welcome to DC... this is probably true at every DCPS / charter school in the city (and suburbs too).

[Anonymous]

We have one who made herself head of the PTA and refuses to let any other parent do anything to help her. Badmouths the school administration at every opportunity. A huge turnoff for me in terms of involvement and fundraising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have one who made herself head of the PTA and refuses to let any other parent do anything to help her. Badmouths the school administration at every opportunity. A huge turnoff for me in terms of involvement and fundraising.

How do you make yourself head of the PTA? Why don't you vote her out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have one who made herself head of the PTA and refuses to let any other parent do anything to help her. Badmouths the school administration at every opportunity. A huge turnoff for me in terms of involvement and fundraising.

How do you make yourself head of the PTA? Why don't you vote her out?

There was no voting! She just decided that was going to be her role. I'm guessing it's a relatively young PTA (at a charter, if it matters). The administration doesn't seem to do anything about it.

[Anonymous]

We are at Latin, and I'm not hearing a lot of high maintenance / intense parents. I am not as involved as I was at our elementary, but the parents seem less intense at Latin than our DCPS elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have one who made herself head of the PTA and refuses to let any other parent do anything to help her. Badmouths the school administration at every opportunity. A huge turnoff for me in terms of involvement and fundraising.

How do you make yourself head of the PTA? Why don't you vote her out?

There was no voting! She just decided that was going to be her role. I'm guessing it's a relatively young PTA (at a charter, if it matters). The administration doesn't seem to do anything about it.

Oh, I see. I hereby declare myself Ruling Despot of her PTA. So, now I am. See how easy that was?

It sounds like there isn't really a PTA. Just being an involved person doesn't make it a PTA. Note the A in PTA (Association) or O in PTO (Organization). That means bylaws, officers, members, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have one who made herself head of the PTA and refuses to let any other parent do anything to help her. Badmouths the school administration at every opportunity. A huge turnoff for me in terms of involvement and fundraising.

How do you make yourself head of the PTA? Why don't you vote her out?

There was no voting! She just decided that was going to be her role. I'm guessing it's a relatively young PTA (at a charter, if it matters). The administration doesn't seem to do anything about it.

We may be at the same charter.
No one wanted the job, so none of us said anything when it happened. It was interesting to see it happen.

[Anonymous]

I think that's my charter too, and as a first time attendee of the meeting, it made me not go back. Obnoxious.

[Anonymous]

All you have to do is read this forum a few times and you'll have your answer. I'm at MV and most of the parents I've met are bright, friendly and reasonable but yes there are one or two who have rubbed me the wrong way. Law of averages really but I think being in DC definitely raises the odds of getting some type-A parents.

[Anonymous]

I've found those are ours are less intense and more opinionated, if that makes sense. They choose the strangest battles to fight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you have to do is read this forum a few times and you'll have your answer. I'm at MV and most of the parents I've met are bright, friendly and reasonable but yes there are one or two who have rubbed me the wrong way. Law of averages really but I think being in DC definitely raises the odds of getting some type-A parents.

Same at our HRC

[Anonymous]

At CMI and the parents are not intense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've found those are ours are less intense and more opinionated, if that makes sense. They choose the strangest battles to fight.

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