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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a blanket statement, no.  Some students have parents who are working 2 jobs, or are in foster care, and they should absolutely not be penalized for not having basically a SAHP who can volunteer 10 hours a week or a rich parent who can fund the entire PTA.

If we are allowed nuance- I do think that if a parent is an unusually helpful volunteer, or takes on volunteer tasks that one one wants (everyone wants to chaperone the cute half day field trip with their child, no one wants to volunteer to mop the cafeteria floors and take all the trash to the dump after the school carnival ends at 9pm), it should not be frowned upon if that kid's family maybe gets picked to run the most fun carnival booth, or maybe [b]if a parent volunteers to be the backstage mom at a drama club performance- therefore not getting to watch her child perform, since she's backstage, this is a classic job that no one signs up for ever in our school's drama club- then that student's family (the other parent, etc) gets front row seats to the performance and a free copy of the DVD recording[/b] to show to the backstage mom afterwords.[/quote]

So if you miss your kids performing because you have time to volunteer, you should get preferential treatment but if you have to earn money and miss it, tough.

That is pretty gross classism [/quote]

It's because she VOLUNTEERED to miss her kid's performance in order to help the show go on.  I am completely fine with that.  Like how airlines offer you a few hundred bucks to give up your seat and take a different flight later in the day if they're overbooked.  [/quote]

She VOLUNTEERED because she has the resources to do so. No job/flexible job. I don’t think we should give people with more resources more perks, as they have plenty already. [/quote]

Ok so back to the airline flight analogy. Someone planned ahead, bought tickets months in advance for an easy direct morning flight, flight was overbooked, they agreed to fly out at midnight instead, and took the 500 dollar flight credit. A second person didn’t try to book their ticket until 24hr ahead of time because they didn’t have the money, let’s say. Not their fault. The morning flight wasn’t even an option when they booked, so, they ended up on the crappy midnight flight because that was what was left. Should they also get a 500 dollar flight credit? They’re stuck on the same crappy midnight flight instead of the convenient morning flight.

No. Because they didn’t volunteer to give up their seat for someone else, to help out the airline. The reward isn’t to compensate for having a crappy flight it’s to encourage people to volunteer to do something to help things run smoothly when they don’t have to. [/quote]

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