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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of this sounds crazy to me.  Just wait until middle school where you can't find volunteers at all.  I am finishing my one-year term as a middle school PTA President and I am so glad to be done. I totally sucked at it, which I pretty much said I would, but nobody else stepped up to do it.  It was a completely thankless job and at a school of ~1400 kids, maybe 15 families actually volunteered in any meaningful way. Those 15 people did a great job and really are the only reason we had any events this year because I am not an event planner and was pretty clear that without other people stepping up, we just wouldn't have those events.  I honestly can't imagine intentionally chasing away volunteers.[/quote]

I tried to volunteer for MS.  The PTA leader begged for volunteers but only allowed her friend to volunteer and ran out anyone who might not sign her praises.  So, either you are the problem or the folks before you and you got stuck with their burden.[/quote]

I was a disorganized mess without time to really take on this role.  Like I said, I stepped up because we got to last June and nobody would do it.  I am sure that someone else could have done it better had they volunteered to do so.  However, I never restricted volunteer roles to my friends and didn't need anybody to sing my praises.  At the end of the day, enough people stepped up (many who I didn't know previously because our kids went to different elementary schools) that we were able to hold events, but it was the same people over and over again all year.

I'm not saying that PTA isn't cliquey at some MS, I'm just saying that is so far from the experience at my child's middle school where we were begging for engagement that it is hard to imagine.

Anyway, glad to be a "former" PTA President rather than a current one![/quote]

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