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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are there that many volunteer situations that are critical? In my kid's 6 years of elementary school, they've asked for volunteers to:

--Come in for 1 hour on the 4th tuesday of the month to change out the bulletin boards
--Set up TAW snacks in the teacher's work room
--Sell bingo cards for the evening bingo game

That's it. If the first two don't happen I think it's probably okay, and the last one shouldn't be an issue since all kids have to come with a guardian in the evening anyway. Some guardians are just going to sit at a table and take money.

My school doesn't have weekly/monthly volunteers for anything.[/quote]

Really? Not helping at library? Or being room parents, stuffing folders, making copies, organizing things, field trips, parties, field day, grade-specific days like pioneer day, picture day, book fair, probably more I forgot. We have a lot of repeat volunteers even if they are doing each of those events once or twice a year, it adds up to many times in the school in total. That's before any PTA events if those count.[/quote]

Sounds like they have no idea what’s going on at their kids’ school. No way there’s this little done by volunteers. What’s the point in even having a pta if their only mission is bingo night?  I guarantee there’s hundreds of hours of work you don’t know about. [/quote]

I forgot lunch monitors, which is definitely needed and some people do that every week. Also lost and found, moving furniture (those requests go out last minute), speaking to the class about you family's holidays or traditions, mystery readers.

Plus the PTA puts on 5 or 6 teacher appreciation breakfasts + TASW, and organized a military appreciation event and supports those families. They advocate for things beyond the school's control to get addressed like sidewalks and traffic.

We've had multiple events for the school community this summer, and there are a ton during the year, both big and small. The PTA officers do an incredible amount of work, but they also rely on the manpower of additional volunteers to pull all that off. I love our school.[/quote]

Ours too. The comment about our school has no volunteers comes from an obvious place of ignorance. Obviously never volunteered for anything and thinks everything happens by magic. The comment was as lazy as FCPS’s execution of this plan. 
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