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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not looking forward to PTA. I've been trying to keep an open mind but so far it looks like what other people are saying will be true.

I signed up to be a room mom. On the sheet there is a line in bold stating that if you agree to be a room mother then you may need to go along with decisions made by others with which you disagree. How much drama or debate could their possibly be about a Halloween party??? To me, this reads that some prima donna already has the Halloween party planned out and does not want anyone changing her party or that people get far too into what to do for a Halloween party. I have no intention of overally expressing my ideas for a Halloween party, just happy to help but the pre-snarkiness on the form is off putting.

I also overhead a PTA mom sighng about her budget issues. She was telling her friend that she just didn't what to do. She would not have enough money later in the year for some event if she did a fundraiser at the beginning of school. I don't work in the non-profit sector but aren't fundraiser's supposed to be net-positive return? If your opertional expenses are larger than the money you take in it doesn't sound like a fundraiser.

Finally, the list of sign opportunities was overwhelming social type activities. Why no science activities, no art, no math, no geography or no language volunteer opportunities? I would be happy to be a reading or math assistant but you need to be able to go in twice a week for 30 minutes between 10-11 or 1-3 pm. I could understand that this is not a once a month type activity but if it was in the morning when school started and once a week they could atrract many more working parents with the educational background to contribute substantially.

At our private preschool, parents were encouraged to do things that let kids benefit from their experience. One parent who had worked at NASA came to the school one morning (this was a huge hit with my kids and he introduced some physics), parents from other cultures taught traditional songs, doctors came in and did health activities, a vet brought some animals in, a naturalist professor took them on a nature walk around the school grounds, etc. [/quote]

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