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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is in high school these women are probably in their 50s which are the perimenopause years.  This is me and i know many women (including on occasion my self) who are acting crazy in all sorts of ways.  Best to just ignore this behavior.  It too shall pass.  [/quote]

OP here. That's a really valid point!!!! Keeping my head down in real life. I was curious if this is an "everywhere thing" and I also wonder if Covid contributes in a "we can finally have nice things again way" but the social skills have taken a beating. So many consultants. So few followers.[/quote]

You nailed my experience with this description! I'm a longtime volunteer working to extract myself from my short-term commitments and responsibly wind down the longer-term ones. Everyone I volunteer with either has a million opinions but no desire to do actual work, or they want to do the work but don't have the ability or emotional intelligence to execute. And both types of volunteers are seeking attention and social capital in exchange for their contributions. It's exhausting and fruitless and leads to endless conflict. We probably have 5-6 functional volunteers in the entire school community, and it's both comical and concerning how many areas they end up involved in.

I've realized that our school has relied on volunteers to run critical functions of the school for too long and it has given too much access to the "wrong" parents as a result. The only way to fix this is with money, so I've been earmarking my donations to areas where paid staff or systems can be put in place to replace volunteers.[/quote]

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