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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve often wondered about adults who never volunteer to give back.  Who don’t help with sports, scouts, religious orgs, etc.  Now I know, they believe that helping out is virtue signaling and their virtue is all caught up in themselves.

I’m sorry if you object to your children having to volunteer and can’t help direct them to resources or direct some of your free time to volunteering with them, your kid needs service learning the most.  Because they’re not learning what it means to be a caring, engaged, and active member of the community from you.

And on behalf of every working, service oriented parent who gets tapped all the time to lead/help/volunteer, I guarantee you’ve enjoyed every fall festival, bingo night, sports team, and scouting event the rest of us have somehow found time to contribute to.  Please stop teaching your children to freeload.  It takes everyone doing their part for us all to have nice things. I’m glad school is teaching them if you are not.[/quote]

You are so privileged it’s disgusting. [/quote]

No, that PP is right. Sure, it's [b]A[/b] privilege to be able to volunteer and to have time to do so. But you're tossing out "privileged" as an insult. The too-cool-for-school parents who yap about "virtue signaling" are--as that PP rightly points out--the same ones who seem to think that school events, organizations like sports teams, etc. just magically happen, and they send their kids to enjoy them without taking any roles in making them happen. Yes, there are families where genuinely the parents cannot volunteer even if they want to. But I doubt that those parents, with job and kid issues that mean they truly can't be as involved in things -- those are not the parents who are on here snottily talking about virtue signaliing and privliege. 
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