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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Hi! Guess what? I'm the person you are responding to and I have a full-time job, too. In fact, I am a Director in my firm (you've heard of us, I'm sure). Yet somehow I still manage to be involved in the PTA (where most of the other parents also work full-time, btw) and lead a girl scout troop (with another mom who also works full-time at another well known and prestigious company). Regarding your snooty comment about "resume-building" - maybe you've been at your company a long time and don't remember what it was like to interview for jobs, but when I was interviewing at my current firm a few years ago, I had several people ask a casual question about what hobbies/free time/volunteer work and I'm proud of the fact that I am helping develop our future leaders through girl scouts -- apparently a lot of people in my type of position do this stuff, I bonded with more than one interviewer over volunteering for this type of stuff. You really never know.

You're a disgrace to all working women, PP, really. B__ches like you are the reason SAHMs think we're all awful. [/quote]

Well now that I have your CV, I guess I should be impressed!  Some of us literally came to this thread to answer OP’s question. Others came here to pat themselves on the back and crap on other moms. Guess which one you are? Way to be a cliché.

You have no clue what my volunteer commitments, career, and involvement level with my child’s life looks like, so you are projecting and I’m reading it loud and clear.  Maybe you need a break! Must be super stressful being you.[/quote]

OMG Go back to work ladies.[/quote]

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