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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, it started off poorly at my very first PTA-sponsored orientation, the PTA president went on at length about the pickup procedures after school.  I raised my hand and asked about how it worked for pickup from extended day, and she looked at me blankly and said she had no idea and that I should "find some parent from extended day and ask them."  Ok, way to alienate me and the roughly 25% of parents in the school who use extended day.  And of course all the fliers and information they put out are by the front door, and they ignored my request to put a second set of fliers by the back door, where we pick our kids up.

Then, they send all these begging emails asking for help for this that or the other, so I sign up, bust my ass to get there on time after work, and then show up and no one seems to know what is going on, who is in charge, what I'm supposed to be doing etc, and then someone wanders over sort of vaguely and says "I guess we don't really need you."  This has happened to me at least 3-4 times.

Finally, I've volunteered 4 times to be a room parent (a task assigned out by the PTA) and have always been passed over while the same moms do it year after year -- they are all the "PTA moms."  So I guess it is the combination of lack of thought for WOH parents, incompetence/wasting my time, and general cliquishness that puts me off.

I still join every year and try to volunteer for a few events, but the latter is mostly to make my kids happy.  They like to see me work a booth at the fair...[/quote]

Wonder how the PTA mom's feel about this and if it's an eye opener......[/quote]

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