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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of preferential treatment are you looking for from an elementary school? [/quote]

+1  I'm planning to volunteer so I can get to know teachers/admins/staff and have a line of communication if my kid needs help or correction.  I think it's pretty bizarre to volunteer so your kid gets better snacks or fewer consequences for bad behavior or whatever OP is imagining.[/quote]

I agree that OP's post is silly.  But come on, she obviously means teacher placements.  Or selected for certain helper roles -- or little speaking parts at performances, etc.  [/quote]

Two of those three things are clinically insane expectations (especially for a kindergartener), and the teacher placement thing is only taken seriously in private schools IME.  Public schools don't want to hear it and won't move a kid absent extreme circumstances.  And the teacher you're requesting really isn't flattered, she sees you as a self-advertised pain in the neck from the day of the request.[/quote]

Yes, I agree...it doesn't work.  Volunteering does not lead to preferred teacher placement.  But she's not the first to (misguidedly) think it might.  And I just thought it was kind of ridiculous that you though OP meant snacks  :roll:  The rest of us knew what she was getting at.

At our public, you can fill out a "placement survey" at the end of each year where you tell the school info/concerns about your kid that might be helpful in building next year's classrooms.  Of course, a lot of people use it to ask that their kid not be placed with X kid, etc.  There are some parents who I think get those requests honored more than others.

The kids of the PTA moms at my school do get all these little roles.  Like, they got to help lead tours at the recent "kindergarten round up" event.  They got some special roles at field day.  They end up in the pictures in the principal's  weekly newsletter.  But, actually, I don't even think that's unfair because their parents are the ones helping with all that stuff.   [/quote]

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