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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a PTA president, about to start my second year as president because we couldn't convince anyone to take the job on. I don't believe in arm-twisting someone into a volunteer role. My motivation is to support my kids' school and because I think I have the organizational skills to stay on top of all the pieces of the job. But it is a no joke job, year-round. And I can't neatly compartmentalize it into the 4 hours I'd like to spend on it per week - there are daytime meetings, emails all the time, night events, weekend events, Board meetings, regular PTA meetings... the list goes on and on.

Our Board has a mix of moms and dads, but moms (many of whom also have full-time paid employment) do the vast, vast majority of uncompensated PTA labor in our school. One of my goals for the upcoming year is to talk more about this inequity and to scale back on some of the labor-intensive activities the PTA does and try to focus on work that our community values the most and that requires less of us.[/quote]

If you cannot get more people to volunteer, maybe look what you are doing as a group to encourage/discourage people from volunteering.  Maybe listen to what others are saying.  [/quote]

What they are mostly saying is, "Thank you for doing this work. I am grateful that it's you and not me."

Volunteering is a luxury. A school structured around parents (moms) volunteering will fall into certain patterns. As PTA president, I'd like to try to break some of those patterns. Or at least make sure they are visible. I know that my PTA volunteering does not serve my kids directly - it actually takes time away from them, and makes me less likely to volunteer as a field trip chaperone, etc. But I think it helps our school.
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