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[quote=Anonymous] think you're absolutely right. This is all reasonable, if not slightly disappointing. It actually takes a little bit for me to feel comfortable diving in, etc. so having to proactively do all the connecting is hard. For instance, it would be so much easier for me to sign up on a list and then show up to something than track down the PTA president to air my grievances. But that is my own issue to contend with and that just isn't the reality at OTES so I'll have to course correct and figure it out. Thanks for your helpful feedback.

Replying to the above: you’re absolutely right.  I didn’t reach out our first few years at the school, mostly because we have two younger kids (who weren’t there yet) and I didn’t have the bandwidth.  But now our middle is there and so I’ve gotten more comfortable doing so.  I know it’s much easier said than done for many people. I also feel like we lucked out and met some terrific folks for our rising K this summer, and they’ve made it easy to connect.

There’s a link to the calendar of events on the PTA webpage—that might be a good starting point.  The book fair is coming up soon, and a movie night.  The calendar has later events you could volunteer to help with, if you wanted to.  It might be worth an email to the PTA to see when they’ll ask for volunteers for those things.  Just some ideas—I know it’s not always easy to reach out. :)[/quote]

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