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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care about classroom parties , field trips, assemblies, the intervention teacher, or reading medals. I spends a boatload of money on my kids education AT HOME. I buy Singapore Math, writing programs, science activities, etc. I have paid for my kid to go to Kumon. My kid is a well -behaved kid who is easy to educate because he already has met grade level standards. The PTA president at my school pushed funding an intervention teacher. Perhaps it is a coincidence but her kids all need to go to intervention, and she surely could pay privately for tutoring. My kids attend a school with a really low FARM rate no kid in the school doesn't have opportunities. Why should I send in money for the PTA for a field trip to a pumpkin patch or farm? All the kids have parents who take them. Why do classroom parties? I wish there were more rigorous academics, but since it is public school I don't complain but I am not sending in money.  [/quote]

[b]But your kids get to participate in these parties and in these field trips that you don't help out with though, right?[/b][/quote]

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These parents are modeling to their kids to be takers.[/quote]

Mean.[/quote]

but true[/quote]

I disagree -- it's just plain mean. I volunteer for parties whenever I can because I enjoy being in the classroom with my kids but I would never call parents who don't "takers." You are just plain mean.[/quote]

By not helping out at holiday parties, I am modeling for my child what is more important:  working.  Work is more important than parties.  Likewise, she should be working (learning and going to school is her "work") and those are the priorities in our family.  Our family does not do all the extra dippy-dips.  If I could write a note and say, "Please excuse Larla from the Santa Christmas Shoppe and just give her some extra work to do," then I would.  I'm sure the teacher would LOVE that, though, b/c it would create more work for her to do.  So, I just have my child go along to Santa's Christmas Shoppe and buy the cheapest thing there and be done with it.  And I teach her that Christmas is not about commercialism and buying things, but love for each other.  We don't need THINGS and SHOPPING to show our love for one another.[/quote]

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