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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't stand it. Ours is a dog and pony show because our principal invites central office bigwigs to attend and they all stand up and give corny speeches and profusely thank our principal for inviting them. There is a lot of food, but I can't eat any of it due to having food allergies (nor would I want to--everything is prepared by the principal and their family and the prep is questionable). Then our principal taps out after the "show" because they're exhausted from cooking all weekend and getting to school extra early to set it all up, and we have to hear about it all week.  We're also expected to thank the principal profusely for their generosity. We have to sit for hours on the backless cafeteria table benches and twist our necks to see the person who is speaking up front. We can't talk to each other because we have to listen to endless speeches from central office wonks about the excitement of a new school year.

All we want is to be left alone in our rooms to start setting up. The last thing I want to do is sit in the hot cafeteria for hours watching the time go by. [/quote]

Where is your PTA in all of this?! I'm a member of the PTA, and last week we pulled off the breakfast. Of course the principal shouldn't be making/buying/bringing this herself! I am shocked that this isn't a PTA affair. [/quote]

We have a very small PTA with a very small budget. I work at a high FARMS school. Not all schools have involved PTAs with big budgets. [/quote]

I wish there was more institutional support in MCPS for sharing and cooperation between/among PTAs.  Our school would like to help support a “sister” PTA but other than personal connections between someone at our school and someone at another school, it’s not so easy to find these opportunities.  The PTA of course does include teachers, so if teachers on the PTA at high-needs schools think they could use reinforcements of this type, there are people in the community who would be interested in helping out.  But it’s not so easy to find each other.[/quote]

Just go through schools at a glance and look for high farms schools and contact somebody on the pta. Any high farms schools would likely appreciate the partnership.[/quote]

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