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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of make-work for hard-driving parents.

Our former PTA president was a physician.

I had to quit volunteering as a class parent (the year we had 3) when I had to have numerous conference calls (this was way before Zoom and Covid) just to plan TA Week.

Very much a, “Hey! Let’s put on a show!” mentality with lots of hyper involved parents trying to outdo one another. [/quote]

We had to have a “marketing strategy” according to one marketing guru parent on the preschool parent board complete with flyers to appeal to a broader community targeting local papers, facebook groups, other social media outlets, as well as focusing on local business to post flyers. A whole team of volunteers was required to help spread the word. Nobody from the wider community was coming to this preschool fundraiser it was by the families for the other families. But a whole lot of work into developing and rolling out “marketing strategy” wasting volunteer time that could have been used more wisely. Ridiculous. [/quote]

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