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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, which is cynical, it is professional full time mom types (SAHMs) with other kids in the school who are active in the PTA. Good luck if you want to be room mom and you are a working mom of 1 child and are new to the school: no one will take you seriously.

As you get up in grades there is bit more room for new faces to contribute.

The further away from DC you live, the more this is true; the closer in you live, the more flexible it is and first-come-first-serve is more apt. But it is always harder to find room parents for the older grades.

Also sometimes the room parent volunteers don't work out: I ended up being de facto room parent once when the actual room parent only collected money for gifts and I let the teacher know I could help out - she just came directly to me for everything. [/quote]

At our school there were tons of professional moms who volunteered. Most had high powered jobs too like lobbyists and Ph.D. researchers and that kind of thing but they all were meticulously organized. I felt like it was easier for me to work with them because they didn't get bogged down in little things and were very efficient.[/quote]

No dads?[/quote]

NP and in my 13 years as an MCPS parent, I have never seen a dad as a room parent.  Several PTA officers are dads.[/quote]

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