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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I am certain a few parents have nefarious reasons for volunteering in their child's classroom, sometimes it's a matter of being sure your child is keeping up and doing his or her work. I suppose this involves some comparison to other children but perhaps it is truly based in helping your child and making sure they are doing well in the classroom. I am fairly clueless about exactly what my child should be doing at this age but I can tell if he seems disinterested or checked out compared to others. It doesn't always have to be about getting ahead and academic one-upping the other kids.

For what it's worth I have never been witness to or even overheard the kind of behavior described by the PP. Most parents and volunteers are truly focused on helping the kids and making sure their child is doing his or her best. I am not a room parent nor inclined to be so perhaps that is an altogether different experience.

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I am the PP, and I agree 100% with your last few sentences.  Like I said, there are crazies in every group, and I just highlighted behavior that I've seen from a few parents.  The other 27 families in my child's class seem perfectly sane and quite helpful. :)

This is my first (and last) year as a room parent.  I basically ended up with the job because no one else signed up, and I was at the right place at the wrong time,  I guess. :)  It really hasn't been so bad.  By 5th grade, there isn't too much to do as the room parent.  The teacher doesn't need the help in the room, and the parties and such have been pretty much paired down to Holiday and End of Year.  I am comfortable enough with my abilities to say that I am MUCH more of a worker bee than the leader, so even though there hasn't been too much to do, I've had a hard time staying organized.  Next year, hopefully someone else will step up and I can go back to being an assistant and let someone else tell me what to do. :)[/quote]

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