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[quote=Anonymous]NP. PTA parents, chill. No one is expressing disdain for parent volunteers. The problem is that after already being made aware of volunteer opportunities and deciding not to do them, PTA parents keep asking. Some of them take no for an answer like an adult. Some of them huff and puff and roll their eyes and say "well we're all busy!" It's that second set of parents who we can't stand.

My child attends a small private. There was a small group of parent volunteers who would plan all sorts of activities and then whine when they didn't have droves of parents volunteering to help them. I said yes to a few things, and no to everything else. It was incredibly annoying to be asked a second and third time about the same activity after I had already said no.

Finally, a critical mass of those parents left the school and the new parent association cut way, way back on activities. It's been great. There are still activities to volunteer for, but now they usually have enough parents because people are not spread so thin. [/quote]

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