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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this attitude new? My kids are still daycare age and I had no idea this was such an expectation. I don't remember my (working) parents doing all of this volunteering/donating/etc. at my Fairfax county public schools in the 80s and 90s. And I don't remember them feeling guilty about it either. They paid their taxes that funded those schools, they were great parents who cared about our education and read to us and helped us with our homework. Maybe they wrote a membership check to the PTA once a year? But they certainly weren't hanging around our classroom reading to us there or planning teacher breakfasts. Is this expected now?[/quote]

Some parents do these things and believe that other parents should be doing them too. Other parents believe that what they do is their business, and what the other parents do is the other parents' business.[/quote]

OP, I do think this expectation IS more ratcheted up than when we were kids.  (I grew up in Fairfax County also -- public hs.)  I think the moms who have chosen to stay home take it very seriously and try to do their best at everything, which means that the holiday parties which were a few cookies and some fruit punch when we were young, are now bigger extravaganzas and have grown to require more parental involvement.  Everything is "too much" and the kids could be happy and learn a lot more if we scrapped a lot of new things, like Dr. Seuss Day (wear a silly hat and bring in your favorite Dr. Seuss book), 100th Day of School (dress up like a 100-year-old), etc.  ENOUGH.  By not participating to run these things or help with these things, I am "voting"/trying to demonstrate that I think they are unnecessary.  I won't be forced to participate in the "more more more".[/quote]

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