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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the parents who do all these things for their kids at home and one on one (that's great!) are missing the point that their kids also do a ton of things at school that other people are apparently organizing and paying for out of pocket.

Do you think that's fair? Would you rather your kid be excluded? Or that these things didn't take place at all? (but they do)[/quote]

I would rather they don't take place at all. I work full time and can't go to parties or field trips. I hate getting an email on Monday night that I am supposed to send in 50 marshmellows or 30 to go containers on Thursday by the room mom who unilaterally has decided we need a Dr. Suess party. Why can't they do a pajama party that doesn't involve food? 
If the PTA had specific fundraisers then each parent could contribute toward what they feel was important.  Ex. I would send in money for new playground equipment but not field trips. [/quote]

I totally agree with this and could have written the same thing.  I send my child to school to GO TO SCHOOL, not to go to a pumpkin patch (we do this as a family on the weekend) go shopping at "Santa's Christmas Shoppe" (really a PTA Fund raiser, and, really, I can take my child shopping on weekends -- she does not need to LEARN how to shop for goodness sakes).  Cut out all these dippy extras and do what school is for:  TEACHING.[/quote]

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