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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC's school *constantly* ask for volunteers--for lunch and recess, book fair, girls on the run, school events--it is incessant. My SAHM was never asked to do one damn thing at my school when I was a child. It's gotten completely out of control! And the vast majority of parents work, so I don't know where they think all these bodies are supposed to come from in the middle of the day.[/quote]

I was the PTA pres for my kids MS.  My workaround was to have students volunteer for a lot of these events and give them SSL hours for participating. Usually, their parents would also donate for pizza and drinks etc for all of these events for the students, and inevitably, some of the parents also volunteered.

Parents will volunteer if their kid are involved in the event or are getting SSL hours. You do not need a lot of money to run the PTA. Have enough to do two or three cultural events and tap into free resources. Piggyback into what teachers are doing and enhance it with PTA participation. For example - you can work with the Arts teacher to have an exhibition and "sell" the paintings to the parents as a fundraiser for the Arts dept as well as PTA.  You really have to understand that parents are very busy and they are not interested if their kids are not engaged or directly profiting in some wat.

If your school does not have volunteers ask the HS kids to volunteer and be creative about the timing of the event.  I do think that PTA has a perception problem at some schools with not being inclusive.  There are some mean PTA moms out there and that is not just a meme. [/quote]

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