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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]In what context were you ignored? Did you try to talk to people and then walked away from you without acknowledging you? Did they refuse to call on you when you raised your hand with a question during the meeting?[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to. Although, at I was 43 at the time had had enough experience to know when I'm being shown I'm not welcome, I'll respond to your question.  When I walked in to the library where the meeting was held, no one acknowledged me even though I made eye contact with several people.  They look at me and then their glances 'slid' away.  I went to a table where there were 4 people sitting and 3 empty seats.  I sat at the table and waited for a pause in the conversation to say hello.  When I did, they paused, looked at me, looked at each other and then said hello.  They then moved their chairs a little further from me, bringing them closer to each other, made no further effort to speak with me and did not look in my direction the rest of the night.  They also did not pass any of the handouts to me and I had to pointedly ask for one of the handouts and had to ask another table for another when they passed the papers to that table without giving me one.

At the next meeting, I sat at a different table with a different group.  The behavior was very similar.  So, yeah, I was ignored.  I didn't bother raising my hand to speak.  The next PTA president was radically different and the atmosphere far more encouraging and welcoming. [/quote]

It’s rather strange to respond to this tread from 2019.

Cringe-worthy, ugh! And these things really do happen. And then they cry about being the only ones who work hard on creating community spirit. It's really a mean girls' magnet for some reason. What I don't understand is where all the money goes. Do you get to see the spreadsheets with spending? Not just the bullet-point list of what they did, but itemized expense sheets. [/quote][/quote]

strange? why? threads get revived all the time. it would have been strange to revive a social distancing thread from 2020, but a general question about pta - why is it strange? [/quote]

Defensive much?[/quote]

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