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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been involved with my child's PTA (not Jones Lane) and I honestly have no idea what the PP would think are the "best" PTA jobs and what are the "worst."  I think it's really personal and personality driven what are the "best" or "worst" jobs.

I also felt like our PTA was hard to break into as a (white) person new to the area.  Nothing gets done at meetings - all the work is organized outside of meetings by e-mail, etc., and friends are often recruited by the chair of an event to help.  But that's because everyone's busy and getting it done in the spare moments between work and kids activities and homework and whatever.  Almost no one has time to go to an extra evening meeting and almost no one can meet during the day.  I was nervous about being new and joining the Board - it felt like I should get to be "just" a volunteer first - but being on the Board is what let me see how the organization is run and get to know the people involved.  There are usually some less time intensive Board positions and I really recommend taking one to see how the organization works and get to know everyone.  I guess that might be what PP means by the "bad" jobs but since I kind of hate event planning, they were a perfect way for me to get involved.  [/quote]

DP here and I don't have a child at Jones Lane but I can attest that as a previous PTA PResident at another school, everything that the PP states is true. Being a PTA board member is practically a full time job. It's typically a very small group of board members who are planning the events, doing all the administrative work such as taxes, membership reporting, audits, etc. A lot of the communication is happening via email or get togethers after work or during the weekend at someone's house to do all this behind the scenes stuff; and as a result, friendships are formed. Trust me- no one wants to be on a board and finding people to fill in roles is like pulling teeth so understandably, existing board members would try recruit their friends. I did. [/quote]

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