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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m on a Board of Trustees for an independent school. Not a Sidwell or an NCS. We are truly struggling with volunteer burnout. The administration is short-staffed and lean on trustees for operational support. Meanwhile the school community treats us like paid employees who work full-time for them. Like PP above, all of us younger trustees just want out. The demands of the role are too great to be sustainable and the close-knit nature of a school community make boundaries challenging. Pre-Covid, school and parents were both in a different place, but post-covid our finances are not what they were and parents have shifted to a paying customer mindset. Our pipeline is running dry.[/quote]

Yes, the paying customer attitude has become insufferable. I volunteer a lot, and the number of parents who seem to think I'm an employee instead of a classmate's mom is shocking (and even if I were an employee, who treats employees like crap anyway?). It never used to be this way. I had two parents yell at me because a gift that was made for their child by other parents had a minor (and fixable) flaw. Unbelievable.[/quote]

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