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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really, we're even cynical about this now, mocking kids for wanting to help their school and mocking parents for caring? I will never understand why there is such hate for people who stand up and try to make things better for no pay and usually no praise.[/quote]

I'll tell you exactly why...

Because this mom says:

[quote]I am involved in the school for all the things that will bring value to my kids education. In the process, I do end up helping other people as well as the school. However, my primary motive is to eventually create opportunities for my own child.

It turns out almost everything I do for my child at the school helps the whole school as well. I do not know what it makes me - an engaged or a helicopter mom? I thought it just made me a mom. [/quote]

So in her own words she does things that "[b]bring value to my kids education[/b]" & "[b]in the process, I do end up helping other people as well as the school[/b]" but "[b]my primary motive is to eventually create opportunities for my own child[/b]"

She's very direct in her words, she is not looking to help anyone but her own kid.

If her efforts while she's helping her own kid end up helping others too, that's great... however that is not her goal, that's happenstance.  
It's called a trickle down effect.

You're absolutely right though, we should hold parents who volunteer for the good of the school in very high regard & I do.
However, if we're talking about someone who's ONLY agenda for helping is "my kid first" they do not get my praise nor respect.[/quote]

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