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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think it would be great for the PTA to sponsor more academic/leadership oriented clubs and events … open to all who are interested, but aimed at enriching the academic experience.  Language club, entrepreneurship club, community service club etc.[/quote]

So volunteer to set up and lead one of those clubs.[/quote]

Oh JFC.  got it.  Listen, some of us really don’t have time, some of us do. I’m in the former category. It’s okay to express ideas without having to bring them to fruition myself.  Perhaps someone who has time will be inspired.  [/quote]

Oh please. If they had the time or the interest, they would have done it already. Clearly they don't, but you do. So do it. I don't have time to lead a girl scout troop but my kid really, really wanted to do it, so I did for her. I made the time. Heck, it might have helped me get a job (a great thing to talk to people about in interviews). [/quote]

I have a job. Heading a club at my kid’s PTA is…not really what people in my field see as a resume builder.

You came into a thread with an OP who appears to have an interest in seeing what people might like at their schools, and issued a typical PTA parent response about how no one should ever say anything about what they’d like to see happen without doing it themselves.  Tiresome.  People like you are why a lot of parents don’t get involved with the PTA.[/quote]

I have a full time job and have served on my kids Cub Scout Pack Committee and started a new Scouting Unit. Why? Because my kid loves it and it was something that was needed. It made him happy and it actually does mean something for my work. They count Community Service Hours and it benefits them to be able to discuss how their employees are serving the youth through different types of programs. Also, there is a certain amount of organizational skill and marketing involved with starting a new unit for any activity.

My husband has a full time job and coaches our kids baseball team. He is looking at coaching DS's basketball team and Math Olympiad team this year. Why? Because DS enjoys those programs and someone needs to step up and do it otherwise they don't run.

Personally, I don't care if you volunteer or not, that is your choice. But dismissing the work that other parents do, regardless of what type of work they do or do not do, is insulting. If your child participates in an activity that is volunteer run, like the PTA or Scouts or rec sports, parents are volunteering because it benefits their kid and, by extension your kid, not because they are worried about building their resumes. [/quote]

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