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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 to both of the immediate PPs.  Some of these room parents need to do a bit of self reflection on whether the root of the problem is that they’re bossy control freaks.  Parties and gifts work wonderfully at so many schools without all of this stress.  These room parents need to pop a Xanax and learn how to create signup genius accounts.  [/quote]

You sound really grounded and seem to know what to do. Step and and volunteer next year![/quote]

I would, except my kids' schools don't have room parents!  Amazingly, parties still happen and things still manage to get done without any sort of neurotic, bossy, busybody SAHMs standing between the teacher and the other parents.  The teachers create their own signup geniuses, and I happily contribute each time.  [/quote]

[b]Then you really have nothing to add[/b]. You have no experience with this.  Many schools and teachers require them. [/quote]

If other schools operate just fine without all of the insanity, that is relevant to the discussion.  Some schools and teachers may require room parents, but no one is requiring them to be over-the-top with it.  Just let people give the teachers their own appreciation gifts, and do sign up genius for the parties.  Why does it ever need to be more complicated than that?  Actually, when my kids were in preschool, we did have room parents.  And they just went with signup genius for parties.  Nothing there was over-the-top.   
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SOme schools require teacher appreciation gift money to not only be collected for the teacher but specials teachers, too. Some also require the room parent to collect for birthday gifts. You realize that changing it means attending the pta meetings, suggesting the change, getting it approved. This isn’t a snap your fingers type of thing and very likely wouldn’t be approved at our school since we implemented the required specials teachers funds. Going backward the specials teachers don’t get gifts. There were complaints that it wasn’t fair to them. [/quote]

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