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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a PTA president and I think that MCCPTA is a big part of the problem. We came from a system where the home school was not part of the bureaucratic National / MD / Montgomery County PTA. It was so much easier!

MCCPTA has way too many rules and makes it more complicated. As president, you spend too much time guiding people through the maze os SoCa requirements, membership reporting, paying dues up to MCCPTA, and heaven help you if you need to update your bylaws. Even if you are changing nothing in your bylaws, the update process is ridiculous. The Reflections art program is not worth the level of complexity that MCCPTA has created. The training is bad and MCCPTA officers have given out bad accounting practice advice or said contradictory things before which sends officers into a state of confusion. The kicker to all this is that MCCPTA often has problems filling its own positions. The year I was president MCCPTA's treasurer was AWOL half the time and useless in helping our treasurer,

The second problem is that too many parents get stuck thinking if its been done in the past then it must be done again. It doesn't. It really doesn't. If no one wants to run an event, its OK not to have that event for that year. If you don't raise enough money for something, it doesn't get bought. There is often too much pressure from the principals to fill up their slush funds and too many parents who crumble at any passive aggressive guilt.

The third problem is what others have touched on by parents who volunteer having a bad experience. Some of this is on the parent volunteering. Some parents see this as a way to make friends and have fun, while others just see it as a chance to help out. The ones that don't have any expectations to get something out of it other than helping out usually stick around and aren't disappointed. The ones who are dying to let their inner Martha Stewart loose, make a new set of BFFs for life at one event, or want to play CEO are often annoyed and aggravate the other volunteers who run for the hills.

The fourth problem is that you are often left with a small handful of capable parents and a large amount of crazies who couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag. As president, its important to be nice to everyone and encourage everyone to take a role they are comfortable accepting but boy some people are really just idiots or obnoxious.

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I completely agree![/quote]

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