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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it’s my area-specific but we have a lot of people from cultures of no volunteering who tend to sit out, and others don’t want to pick up their slack.

[b]For me personally I just noticed that my son’s early elementary experience didn’t improve when I was volunteering (volunteering had no effect on how good or bad the school treated us or how many play dates he had). [/b]
So I kind of checked out. [/quote]

I know there's the strong impression on DCUM that principals favor the PTA parents - it's so strong maybe at some schools it's true - but at our ES that definitely isn't the case. Some of the kids of the most involved moms got some of the worst teachers this year and last. What we PTA parents will tell you it does is:

1) give you a window into your child's day - when they say names, you can picture faces. Also in the case of at least one of my kids I saw some concerning behavior while I was volunteering that the teacher hadn't mentioned and the child didn't even think was happening. That gave me as a parent a chance to work on it. Win for my kid, win for me, hopefully win for the class. Yeah I know upthread someone said the kids whose parents should be volunteering to see bad behavior never do, but that isn't [i]always[/i] the case. Even with my other kids where I didn't need to address something, it was easier to talk about the day when I knew more about how the class looked and who the kids were and how the teacher ran things.

2) give you a little rapport with the teacher so if an issue comes up, you feel more comfortable addressing it. Maybe it's your kid, like my one above and then I had an actual in-class experience if the teacher did raise the issue. Maybe it's another kid, and you feel a little better speaking up (like the multiple times my kids were smacked by classmates at school and I wanted to ask for their seats to please be moved).

Volunteering isn't going to necessarily give you a huge benefit or make your child a ton of friends. But there are some little things.[/quote]

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