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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am involved now but considering quitting- the president wants us to just run errands for her and such, she does not listen to any ideas really. And there is not much influence on school matters and not much money to really change anything. I don't want pizza parties, I want an aide hired for my classroom. But that just won't happen.
However I am on the school board as well as a parent rep and it is much more rewarding. And less time consuming.
So next year I will donate, volunteer in class, and serve on the school board.[/quote]

X 1000!  I was a room parent and it was just fund raising -- no classroom support.  I want to be working where it matters.  Now I don't have a title but I informally volunteer where it matters.[/quote]

I am the PP you quoted. I am a room parent, too, and it seem like my teacher never once had a room parent while working at our school - she seems thrilled and she does listen to my ideas. I am in charge of Scholastic Reading Club book orders, and I come in to do some sorting and filing work. I am trying to convince her to let me have the parent contacts list so I can send out info re: volunteering for specific things, fundraising ideas, and other stuff.
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I am doing something similar but unofficially. I just go to DC's teacher and say that I am willing to help with everything - buy supplies, organize the room, send parents to her gofundme page.  I don't do it as a the school room parent because the PTA didn't organize the volunteer parents in that way.  But that is the way that I enjoy.[/quote]

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