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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG drama much?!?! I'm so sure the AWFUL TERRIBLE "Mean Moms" at your school are guarding all the volunteer opportunities for themselves and not "allowing" anyone to help...for....the GLORY of it?!?![/quote]

I cut off the rest, but I'll chime in from another father's perspective.  We live in a pretty affluent area and yes, you do see the same mothers generally being the room parents each year, doing the volunteer stuff, etc.  However, since both my wife and I work, I'm glad someone is able to step up and do these things, I wish I had more time before my kids enter the age range where they don't want me around at all.

The only time I've been a bit annoyed is when my kids have had field trips, because this is an aggressive area with aggressive parents.  We'd get notices that a field trip is coming up and there is a need to chaperones.  Cool, I'd think, let me check my meeting calendar, talk to my boss, see is I can get a little time off.....not one hour later, the next e-mail comes that the spots are full.  And I'll admit, I definitely figured (fairly or not) that it was the stay at homes, the volunteer folks, snapping up all the spots immediately.

I've still been able to go on a few of them, and the teachers do say that parents who aren't chaperones can still meet there.  Speaking as someone who has chaperoned a few times, no chaperone is going to turn down having an extra adult to help.  I'm sure they wouldn't turn down you pitching in to help volunteer.  You're cutting yourself out, not the other way around.[/quote]

NP, but I'm one of the SAHM/constant volunteer crowd. I can imagine this scenario is very frustrating. But also I've been in the situation where I"ve been told by a teacher that she was reserving the field trip chaperone spots for the parents who "never get a chance to volunteer" and that sucks too! Because, as you can probably imagine, after spending hours in her classroom doing the stuff that no one wants to take off work to do--even if they could swing it!--it would be nice to be rewarded for the hours spent in her classroom by being selected for one of these coveted spots. Not saying I should get preference, but getting passed over for the fun stuff because I "get to help out all the time" is a slap in the face as well.[/quote]

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