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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think most PTA moms are any certain way, but as a former MS PTA president, I can tell you that parents/teachers were not shy about telling us what they thought we should be doing but it was like pulling teeth to get volunteers and to get people to show up to meetings.  I definitely wasn't a great PTA president, but nobody else wanted to do it and it was absurd that our school of 1400 kids would not have a PTA.

I decided early on that if we didn't have someone volunteer to chair an event, we wouldn't have that event.  I wasn't about to be a martyr when there were hundreds of families at the school that could help.  If that meant fewer events than other people thought we "should" have, so be it.  The bottom line is volunteering at PTA events isn't a favor you are doing for the PTA board, it is something you are doing to help your child's school.  If you aren't interested, don't do it, and as PTA president, I was friendly and thankful for all our volunteers, but it wasn't like I was the beneficiary of their efforts -- our children's school was. [/quote]
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