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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, you should volunteer at your child’s school, if you can without hardship, because helping when you can is a good thing. No, you should neither expect nor desire preferential treatment for your child, regardless of how much you volunteer. Kids can’t control what their parents do. Your volunteering does not make your child any more deserving, and another child whose parents are uninvolved is not less deserving. But volunteering at school will help all kids, including yours. While there are roles for extroverts, many of the volunteer tasks are low key and minimal visibility. I probably spent hundreds of hours over the years alone in the copy room making copies for the teachers. Papers need to be sorted and put in each child’s folders. Shapes need to be cut out of construction paper. If the volunteer can do the boring grunt work, it frees the teacher up to spend more of her time and energy focusing on the kids. [/quote]
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