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I think you're the idiot here, although OP is certainly way too entitled.  I started volunteering for the same reason, because truthfully many fcps principals do grant favors to the PTA parents.  However, I soon learned that it wasn't so much about favors as about avoiding an unhappy parent who might make waves.  Many parents will never speak up, no matter what you do, but a parent that goes to the trouble to be in the school all the time is likely also to have the ability to cause trouble for an uncooperative or just not so great principal.  Many principals need to learn that like it or not, there is a customer service element to the job. While I agree the children of PTA moms don't deserve special treatment, ALL children deserve to have the best possible placement, and if you are going to screw someone over then you screw over the pta moms at your own risk.  [/quote]

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Very well  said!  I am a PTA mom now and I am in the school almost all the time.  Yes, it takes a lot of my time but I find it worthwhile. Being at the school means that I have a fairly good idea of the good, bad and ugly among the staff, parents and students.   The PTA and the principal have to find common ground to work together, realizing that sometimes their agenda may be different.   I was a very involved parent at the school even when I was not in the PTA.  However, I had to jump through hoops to to get things done and was not always given the time of the day by the staff and administrators.  When I joined the PTA and became a PTA officer  it became easier to  get things done because unnecessary obstacles were not placed in my path. Don't get me wrong, I still have to do the heavy lifting and put in the grunt work, but now I have the backing of the PTA organization and it becomes much easier to get the wheels moving.   [/quote]

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