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[quote=Anonymous][quote]This is laudable. Sometimes these things snowball (per the valid teacher appreciation week complaints) into things that are not valued and are a lot of work. Why!??! Brilliant to shit the focus to high-value, low labor things. Like providing t-shirts for field day, for example. We should start a thread of these and see if anyone agrees. Teacher appreciation week is def high labor low value. One catered teacher appreciation lunch? Spectacular.[/quote]

This X100. We had one mom who was president for one year but then afterwards kept up the T-shirt pressure. Everything had to have a t-shirt paid for by the PTA. Good forbid enough money wasn't allocated for the free t-shirts at the several events. On top of this, there needed to be a new cool t-shirt design each year to encourage more t-shirt sales. These were fine when the kids were little but for 5th grade promotion no kid ever wore it again because middle schoolers don't want to wear elementary school t-shirts.

Our book fair is ridiculous. Moms are expected to make 3 dimensional decorations to turn the hallway and media center into the theme of the book fair. The book fair is open constantly so kids can run down any time during class and buy crap -more crap gets sold than books. The PTA has to fund all the book fair raffles and snacks for volunteers during the week of book fair being constantly open. 
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