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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do the PAs at your schools work? My child recently started at a new school in order to be a grade rep or involved in anything you have to be invited. For instance, if you want to be a grade rep, you have to be nominated however people who don't wanna do it are nominated, and elected and pressured into doing it while people who volunteered are passed over.

My past experience was everyone could come to meetings, show up and raise their hand if they want to be a grade rep or involved in the auction everybody was able to do what they thought their talents would be best utilized for.

The result is, there's no parent community at this new school and parents are actively kept out of the Parent Association.

If you feel comfortable mentioning your name, I would appreciate that. Please tell me how the PTA works at your school.[/quote]

NP here. This reminds me of Beauvoir. I was the PTA president at a DMV school a few years ago and attended a PCW event for the PTA presidents (and president-elects, so 2 people from each school) of participating schools so all the DCUM private schools mentioned on a regular basis were there. We were discussing challenges in volunteer fatigue that most schools reported experiencing, sharing stories, offering suggestions and I will never forget when the president of Beauvoir raised their hand and announced "oh we don't have that problem and we have a very organized system to screen volunteers. For example, our most popular committee is the Book Fair committee. So in order to be on the Book Fair committee, a parent must be nominated to volunteer at two prior book fair events and then after those 2 events they can be ASKED to be on the Book Fair Committee."

I was sitting at a table with the Potomac, St. Andrews and I think Burgundy Farms presidents and all of us were speechless and the Potomac woman started laughing and rolling her eyes. Beauvoir has the book fair once a year apparently, so to be on the committee (at least back then) you had to have already been at the school for 2 years. This school goes to [b]2nd grade.[/b] What?[/quote]

I meant 3rd but everything else still stands.[/quote]

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