Reply to Why do so many SAHMs insist on PTA or activity meetings during the school day?

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Why do so many SAHMs insist on PTA or activity meetings during the school day?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my kids’ elementary, they tried evening meetings and not many came. They switched meetings to 8AM (school start time of 8AM) and had much better attendance. Working parents who wanted to attend would just start work late that day, and most SAHPs preferred it. They also live-streamed the meetings.

I didn’t have any say in scheduling, just saying how it worked at our school. [/quote]

WOHM here.  The right-around-drop-off meetings are by far the best for me personally.  OP's proposed times of 7 and 8:30 pm are horrible because my kids are upper ES and MS and 7-9 is prime time in my house for activity drop offs/pick-ups, dinner, actually seeing my MSer and helping her with homework, etc..  My DH also travels a handful of days a month so it would be very hard for me to step away those evenings.  Plus it's just late and I'm tired, ha!

I have enough flexibility and seniority at work, including some WFH days, that starting my work day a bit later a handful of days after an around-dropoff meeting is basically NBD.

OP don't assume that even WOHM want evening meetings, and certainly not ones as late as you are proposing.  [/quote]

Another WOHM and I also can do right-around-drop-off meetings. Our PTO offers those plus an evening Zoom to try and capture as many people as possible. I find evening in-person horrible.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics