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I am on the board of our elementary PTA.

I don't think it's necessary to turn teacher appreciation week into a whole rigmarole and apart from one year, I have never lifted a finger for it! The chairperson responsible for it decides on the events for that year, finds parent volunteers, gets funds from the PTA general funds, and I look the other way because it's really not my cup of tea.

OP, your mistake is thinking that you are required to do something. YOU'RE NOT.

Please remember that PTAs allocate scholarship money for field trips and backpacks filled with food and clothes for the neediest students, pay for extra training during the summer or during the year for teachers when public schools don't have the funds to do so, pay for maintenance of electronic boards and laptops, buy books/supplies for teachers, help maintain the playground equipment, pay for artists to come in to enrich the students' curriculum, etc...

Your hate is misplaced. PTAs do excellent work. Just ignore the stuff you don't want to do. It's easy. 
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