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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the room parent at a public school. I end up paying for most of the food for kids' parties. We don't get pizza for parties, but it takes a lot of effort to put together a table of healthy food for these parties.

Before the holidays, I asked parents to vote to decide if they wanted to have a group class gift, then 1/2 backed out at the last minute, so I end up fronting 100s of dollars for that (instead of the 20 per family).

I have a serious illness and I lost my job this year (I have a temporary, lower paying one now). I still did the right thing.

I have no sympathy for the shirkers who don't even give a thought to the burden they're placing on a VOLUNTEER who is trying to make sure things are nice for all their kids and the teacher who takes care of them 8 hours a day.

Do better shirkers.[/quote]
$20 × 20 kids? That's $400  for a teacher gift. Nope. If you choose to do that, it darn well should be on you. [/quote]

It sounds like you are working really hard on behalf of the kids, PP. And, I'm sure it's frustrating to have parents not come through with the resources you would like to have, however, I think you are coming at this the wrong way. You get the resources, and then work with what you have. If that means the teacher gets a $200 gift instead of a $400 gift that is okay. If it means the teacher gets a gift card instead of a gift that you carefully picked out and ordered ahead, that is okay. You are putting too much pressure on yourself to have things a certain way, when it doesn't match the reality of the resources other families are providing.[/quote]

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