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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chantilly is just as good as Oakton. No one zoned to Chantilly "perceives" Chantilly as less-than Oakton. [/quote]

True. But, others do. Just look at RIO. They are almost at Langley level in their elitism.[/quote]

What's Rio?[/quote]

Rooted in Oakton, a group trying to keep Crossfield ES at Oakton and not Western. They have a website and everything.[/quote]
It's a small group of Crossfield AAP and sports moms who have a lot of time on their hands and have recruited their Oakton, Navy and Waples Mill friends to join a FB group and sign a petition to make it look like a huge portion of the Crossfield community supports staying at Oakton. Look in the FB group - I don't recognize 75% of the names. [/quote]

Imagine these are SAHMs too who have nothing better to do.  [/quote]
Bingo! And run the PTO to boot.[/quote]

You are welcome to volunteer and run the PTA.

I don't ever volunteer for PTA stuff, and rarely volunteer for other stuff beyond the really easy things like collecting tickets at events.

I will never, ever understand the vitriol from some people towards the moms who are willing and able to volunteer all those hours to run and organize things like team funraisers, school carnivals, book fairs, stocking the staff breakrooms, bringing in performers and authors for school assemblies, funding high school scholarships, etc etc.

Those moms put in a ton of volunteer hours, fill in gaps when needed, and often use their own money to do so, doing double or triple shifts when most parents (like me) can't or won't take the time to step up and do their part.

The only thing I think when I see posts like this slamming the moms who step up and volunteer, unlike moms like me, is that the post is dripping of jealously, guilt and resentment because those moms are able and willing to make the time to invest in their kids' school to the benefit of all kids including the kids of those of us like me, who can't or don't want to volunteer.

Slamming the PTA moms instead of just saying thank you or saying nothing if you can't get over your resentment, guilt or jealousy, just looks really small and petty.

If you don't like what the PTA moms do for the school, just quietly opt your kid out of every event, presentation, book fair or assembly run and funded by these hard working moms, or step up and volunteer yourself.

Me?  I never wanted to volunteer, so I would just send a thank you and a check.[/quote]

Woah, woah, calm down lady. I did not in any way "slam the PTA moms". All I said was that the RIO moms are on the PTO. You need to chill.[/quote]

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