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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am one of the few MC parents in a title 1 school. Worked my butt off on the PTA board for 2 years, plus classroom volunteering, plus working directly with principal to organize events for the school.
Part of the deal as I saw it was that my son was in a stronger teacher's class last year, plus a stronger and better peer group in his class. He almost always got into free enrichment activities where there was a lottery, which I also saw as part of the deal (never was stated by anyone openly but I was even asked for a preference for a summer program). 
Last year, I was asked about the preferences for my son's classroom placement, which I stated (3 of them: teacher, best friend, avoiding one other child). Well I saw the class lists today and I got ZERO of my requests fulfilled. I am fine with either teacher, I am more or less ok that his good friend is not with him, but there is a boy I specifically told the school my son had some run ins with and who is just plain disruptive and physically aggressive, and he is in my son's class. Also, I can see that his class is just weaker than the other one. Two kids who were held back a grade, one borderline special needs slow learner, and only one strong student besides him.
I am just so disappointed. I tried to stay loyal to the neighborhood school, tried to make it better, but now I am just tempted to transfer the kid to a more decent school a bit further away. I am drastically scaling down my PTA involvement this year for sure, and looking into other school options.

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this is why I hate SAHM at school.   Schools should be a PARENT FREE ZONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]

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The op's post is literally the worst.   [/quote]

I'm a SAHM and I never hung around the school being a busy body.  I would go in a couple of times a week and help out.  That was all.

Please don't lump all PTA parents/classroom volunteers into this category.  Most of us have lives, some of us work and the vast majority of us have other children and responsibilities that keep us busy.  We volunteer because we see a need for our help and we want to do our part.
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One year I spent the year helping to make sure that hundreds of kids had Orchestra uniforms and I went to concerts to make sure that everyone's attire looked good, they had their bow ties and sashes tied correctly, the right socks on, etc.[/b]

I can understand not wanting busy body "spies" in the school.  I don't like that, either.  At the same time, I know that running the "SAHMs" (and many of the volunteers you see do have jobs, btw) out of the school would not be a benefit to anyone.[/quote]

How do bow ties and sashes benefit the children? How can that possibly be seen as a "need"?

I do think that volunteers do some wonderful thing for schools, but micromanaging children's clothing is the kind of thing I associate with busy bodies.  [/quote]

eh, some kids are more detail oriented than others are, especially in middle school.  Some parents have time to look their own kids attire over.  But sometimes kids come rushing in asking for someone to please tie their sash.  Or maybe they need black socks to wear with their black orchestra pants.

Some of these kids will go on to play in competitions in front of judges so they definitely should be well versed in attire rules.[/quote]

Wait, what???? You are doing this for middle schoolers???!!! I was picturing early elementary kids. Holy shit...[/quote]

They don't start wearing formal concert uniform attire until middle school.  So, yeah, it is new territory for them.  And there a lots of little rules (right down to the color of hair ties and bobby pins).

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Whose rules are they?[/quote]

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