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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was on PTAs for years, volunteered extensively in elementary, middle and high schools, and since one of my kids has special needs, we also had to deal with IEP management and additional communication surrounding my son's needs.

The only times I've seen school staff treat a parent differently is when they were scared of them. I know of several cases: two mentally ill mothers, who were inconsistently friendly, then aggressive (probably untreated bipolar), then had a psychotic break, expressed severe paranoia and fled with their kids, thinking they were under FBI surveillance or that their ex-husbands were coming for them (they weren't). Police had to get involved both times. And two overbearing fathers, of the hyper-competent but intimidating variety, with prominent jobs in the community, whom no one wanted to cross. Whenever they had grand ideas to help their school, the administration bent over backwards to accommodate them, or handled them with kid gloves to tell them what they wanted was impossible.

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OP here. I'm not mentally ill, and there's nothing to be scared off, how incredibly rude of you to imply that.[/quote]

PP you replied to. ??? I was not implying this at all. It's interesting you should go there. I was implying that perhaps your husband comes off as a little more intimidating than you. There are many husbands who volunteer in the schools my kids have attended (fewer than mothers, of course), so the mere fact he's a man shouldn't change anything. It must be his way of expressing himself in writing, by phone or in person.

Or perhaps he takes over when you've done the groundwork, so it seems to you he gets to the goal, when it reality the staff has already been primed by you.

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