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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At ours it's a mafia. The queen bee (head of the PA) hand selects one of her minions to oversee all room parents. If you lobby and court the minion or the bee, you will be selected as the room parent. However, a courtesy email will go out to the entire class asking if anyone wishes to volunteer as the room parent. This makes the process appear transparent. [/quote]
This is exactly how it's done at our kid's school.[/quote]

I've been the minion, and let me acquaint you with my perspective.  My friend, who is basically taking on a part-time job by heading up the PA, begs me to find room parents (or grade reps in MS and US).  I, knowing from personal, hard experience what a thankless job it is to be a room parent or grade rep, gird myself to, in turn, beg anyone I know who might possibly be willing to do said thankless job.

First, I try sending cheery emails ("Hope you're having a great summer!  Looking ahead to the school year . . .").  When these fail to yield the required roster of room parents, I fortify myself with a glass of rose (pink for optimism) and start dialing up folks ("Hey -- how are you?  I understand Ruby will be in Miss Piggywinkle's class this year . . . "  ).  I do my best to make the job sound like fun, fun, fun and tell all kind of lies about how other parents will step right up to pitch in as needed.  I tell myself that the folks I'm conning will eventually forgive me . .  . or not, and, if the latter, hey, I only need to spend the next x years until graduation avoiding them at every school function.

If, at any time during this process, someone were to "lobby and court" me, I would swoon in relief, gratitude and elation, and happily check that class/grade off my list.  Then, I would pour myself a celebratory glass of rose and thank God that I myself have only had to be grade rep once in my life!    [/quote]

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