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It is insanity that people are in a huff about a pizza party once or twice during the whole year. You don’t provide lunch that day. Your kids enjoy it. This is such a tiny thing to help build the classroom community to have downtime for a special occasion - field day or Xmas time. I am
Baffled by any other stance than this is okay. I get lots of appreciative remarks from parents how they love the pics I sent of the class party- even from those that contributed zero. It’s a fricken special lunch 1-2 times out of 9+ months. My goodness. [/quote]

No one [b]is in a huff about a pizza party[/b].  People are in a huff that you expect a large operating budget as a room mom, refuse to scale back when you don't receive the money that you think you are owed, and then try to shame people who viewed it as a voluntary contribution and not as class dues.

Any reasonable person would lay out what they want to do as a room mom, ask for contributions, and then work with the money that you get.  If people aren't contributing enough for a pizza party, then you scale back and don't have the pizza party.  Likewise, if people aren't contributing enough for reasonable class gifts for x-mas, teacher appreciation week, end of year, birthdays, or whatever else, you scale back and give only 1 or two presents.  You don't get to shame or judge people who aren't falling into line with what you want.  And if you decide that the kids still need a pizza party, even if it's out of the budget, that's on you.  The kids are not owed a pizza party, and you are not owed money from others to finance one.  [/quote]

Wrong. Plenty of people said a mini muffin or cupcake on a paper towel was fine. Many also said pizza was ridiculous. [/quote]

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