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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why won't they meet in the evenings or after the kids go to bed? Do your husband not allow it? Do you not trust them to be alone with the children? This has happened to me multiple times over the past several years where I've proposed meeting at 7pm or 8:30pm and they say they can't because it's dinner time, kids bedtime, they have so much to do. Please explain.[/quote]

The trick is to live in a neighborhood where there aren't many SAHMs. Our PTA meetings are at 6 pm with childcare and pizza/drinks provided.[/quote]

I feel like this would only work with really little kids who don’t do much for activities yet (maybe K-1st or so). Otherwise 6pm is absolute prime time for practices/activities for elementary schoolers- soccer practice, dance class etc. Usually those are not right after school (because most parents work) yet aren’t later in the evening either (due to kid age/bedtimes)….usually they ended up being over the dinner hour [/quote]

Families often have two parents…[/quote]

Yes we do. 2 parents and 3 kids. Zero chance either parent will be free at 6pm. We are lucky if both parents are even home from work by then- and then often juggling trying to get various kids to activities as it is. Craziest time of day at our house. [/quote]

So it doesn’t sound like you could make a 10:30am PTA meeting either … the point is to pick a time that doesn’t exclude any sector entirely. Some families will not choose to participate in the formal PTA meetings which is fine. There are usually volunteer opportunities for you to participate at other times, or not at all, that’s cool. Or you just contribute money.

At our elementary the PTA fundraised quite a large amount of money. It would have been really inappropriate for transparency purposes to pick meeting times that excluded working parents ex ante, especially since they ALSO expected those parents to donate a lot. [/quote]

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