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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our entire PTA has practically been wiped out. I'm learning of new families leaving APS every day. Not all are going private, many are moving in with their families where school is open full time. [/quote]

Where?? [/quote]

DP.  I don't know if I'm at the same school as pp, but in our NW elementary school, almost all of the executive board, including the positions that usually feed into the president position, have decided to step down after this year.  It's not due to any internal strife that I know of, but is simply because they are all exhausted and burned out, and just can't do it again next year if we might still be on this hybrid schedule.  Most of them are working parents, and I can't blame them at all for giving it up because this is all too much.  If they can't find anyone to fill those roles for next year, or if they can only find people who will agree to serve if the PTA's activities are scaled back considerably, that will have a major impact on what the PTA can do for the school.

None of that means I'm on board with all of the comments made in this thread, because some of them have been really gross.  But I am concerned that this is a symptom of the extent to which the current status of schools is breaking families with school-aged children.  And if highly-resourced families are breaking, I have to imagine it's even worse for families with fewer resources.[/quote]

Exactly.. It's awful.[/quote]

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