PTA asked teachers to pay for student breakfast: unreasonable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PTA needs to provide. And NOT ask you to come in early. Jeezus. Rich people are the cheapest, most clueless mofos. Private school teachers are mostly already underpaid as it is.

So thoughtful of 11:11 to illustrate your point

[Anonymous]

WHAT? No, do not go along with this, OP. My kid doesn't need to be gifted breakfast, and if the school organizes a morning social, then I would absolutely refuse that teachers pay for it. How incredibly rude of school leadership!!! How brain-addled are they???

[Anonymous]

No, you are right.

The principal or Union rep should say this is unacceptable and will not happen.

[Anonymous]

A high school seniors family will have been shaken down for 100’s of dollars in the last four years for you (higher at private school) for your breakfasts and your lunches and your baskets and your holiday card. $30.00 for a milestone doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.

[Anonymous]

That is nuts. If I were a teacher, I's be talking with head of my division or HoS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has to be a mistake; it is so laughably inappropriate.

Can you reply all to the google doc and sincerely ask if this was sent to the wrong people?!

This. Can’t imagine how anyone in the pta thought it was a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is nuts. If I were a teacher, I's be talking with head of my division or HoS.

As long as you’d be good with the parents reacting this way every time the PTA shook them down foe more than their tuition to fund a teacher breakfast or holiday gift. One reciprocal gesture from teachers to graduating seniors isn’t insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PTA needs to provide. And NOT ask you to come in early. Jeezus. Rich people are the cheapest, most clueless mofos. Private school teachers are mostly already underpaid as it is.

So thoughtful of 11:11 to illustrate your point

I bet you're richer than me. And probably never donated a dime to anything at the school. Or lifted a finger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is nuts. If I were a teacher, I's be talking with head of my division or HoS.

As long as you’d be good with the parents reacting this way every time the PTA shook them down foe more than their tuition to fund a teacher breakfast or holiday gift. One reciprocal gesture from teachers to graduating seniors isn’t insane.

The PTA is an organization of parents. If they are shaking down each other for something teachers did not ask for that’s not on the teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a public school? Please encourage one of the senior teachers to say something to the PTA. I've never heard of anything like this and I think most parents would be horrified by this request. Speaking as a public school parent although I assume the same is true for privates.

The first sentence of the post says she’s at a private.

The parents at our private always provided the food and labor

[Anonymous]

I think it's unreasonable. I also think it's unreasonable for parents to provide teachers breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is nuts. If I were a teacher, I's be talking with head of my division or HoS.

As long as you’d be good with the parents reacting this way every time the PTA shook them down foe more than their tuition to fund a teacher breakfast or holiday gift. One reciprocal gesture from teachers to graduating seniors isn’t insane.

The PTA is an organization of parents. If they are shaking down each other for something teachers did not ask for that’s not on the teachers.

Actually the “T” stands for teachers who are members of the PTA. They’re soliciting charitable donations from their students to themselves. Whenever someone points out that its gross people say to just ignore the PTA emails. Teachers should follow that advice here if they really don’t want to do this.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely nuts. Do not participate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is nuts. If I were a teacher, I's be talking with head of my division or HoS.

As long as you’d be good with the parents reacting this way every time the PTA shook them down foe more than their tuition to fund a teacher breakfast or holiday gift. One reciprocal gesture from teachers to graduating seniors isn’t insane.

The PTA is an organization of parents. If they are shaking down each other for something teachers did not ask for that’s not on the teachers.

Actually the “T” stands for teachers who are members of the PTA. They’re soliciting charitable donations from their students to themselves. Whenever someone points out that its gross people say to just ignore the PTA emails. Teachers should follow that advice here if they really don’t want to do this.

When you are a teacher at a private school, you can't just opt out of things you don't like, even if they technically aren't part of your job description. We aren't unionized, and "fit" of a teacher is very important at a school. "Fit" is a vague and hazy category with a definition that shifts and changes in the way admin choose to apply it. If there is an event and you are encouraged to participate, you "have" to do it, and you do it with a smile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is nuts. If I were a teacher, I's be talking with head of my division or HoS.

As long as you’d be good with the parents reacting this way every time the PTA shook them down foe more than their tuition to fund a teacher breakfast or holiday gift. One reciprocal gesture from teachers to graduating seniors isn’t insane.

I really hope you are a troll.