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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you are confused. You should be asking yourself why there aren't more parents of older kids attending PTO meetings or joining the board. If the answer is that the parents of older kids don't want to do these things, well you've just discovered why those other parents left. They were tired of being at a school with low parental involvement rates, and they also saw the writing on the wall and realized the burden on them as one of the few parents who volunteers and participates would only increase the longer they were at the school. I am one of these parents. I didn't want to leave my neighborhood school and I wasn't trying to "change it" via volunteering. But I wanted my family to be at a school with higher parent participation rates, and now we are. We value family participation and it just didn't seem like something our old school cared about. So few families did it and the administration was often actively hostile to it.[/quote]
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