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16:43 and 16:47 PPs, right on, and thank you for what you do in your kids' schools.

OP, what does "parent volunteer" mean in [u]your[/u] child's school? Are we talking elementary, middle--? Volunteers' tasks vary widely depending on the individual teacher and what he or she wants.

Some want a lot of classroom help, some little to none; it decreases as kids get older, too, in terms of classroom help, and then parents are needed more for things like field trips, school events such as field day or (in our elementary) history days that were part of the history curriculum....Sometimes the office needs help, sometimes the library needs help. Teachers need to be spending their time on their classes, and parent volunteers can help free them to do more of that (and less of the needed but not skilled stuff,  like stuffing weekly folders, or cutting out things for K classes etc.). Librarians also have teaching requirements and parents who shelve books and help check out kids' books help free librarians to focus on their lessons. The middle school orchestra trip, for a competition, that we just did could not have taken place without dozens of parent chaperones; three music teachers cannot chaperone 150 kids....

OP, what is behind the question? It's worded almost as if you're doing research, asking parents what they do and teachers if volunteers are a nuisance or a necessity. Maybe volunteers are a bit of both at times. Few of them are thinking of brownie points for their kids, as some on here seem to believe.[/quote]

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