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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Volunteers have a shelf-life, OP.

I was on the board of a PTA organization for 5-6 years until I felt I could no longer provide creative solutions, at which point I found my replacement and left on cordial terms.

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And to the parents complaining that the PTA does nothing useful, our most important work was:
1. With other PTAs, provide a bulwark against real estate developers in the pockets of MCPS central office and county government to bring them to the table and force them to provide data that can later be used against them (they never keep their promises), in relation to building moratoriums around our overcrowded schools.
2. Raise large amounts of money to buy or maintain Promethium boards, playground equipment, recess games, maker-type activities, monetary support for the few MCPS instructional allotments that allow private funds, including paying teachers to tutor after school, as well as cultural and artistic residences for artists to stay for weeks and provide enrichment to students.
3. Discreetly identify, feed and clothe the portion of kids that needed it (and a provide a pantry for vacations), as well as develop liaisons with multiple ESOL populations that enroll their kids in our very international school, to support their needs.

PTAs can and do support really important academic and socio-economic endeavors. It's not your Grandma's bake sale. I don't think we ever had a bake sale, in fact.
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This thread was not about the PTA, and OP said she doesn't even do PTA work, so stop hijacking the thread in order to brag about all your achievements (which, based on my experience with PTA, are most certainly way overblown and fail to include the harmful effects of the outsized influence of a small group of upper income women on the school population at large).[/quote]

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