During a recent event I was at that "just about insane" stage and wondering why on earth I EVER thought working on PTO was a good idea. I was handling 5 mini crisis at once and numerous ruffled feathers when the principal asked me for something. Later, I realized I had given the man detailed instructions on how to apply tape (you know - like tape something to the wall). And he let me! I apologized later for talking to him like a 3 year old, but he just laughed it off and said it was a "bonding experience".
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I had one of those "I can't believe I said that" moments at our last meeting. The discussion came up about selling school logo license plate frames along with t-shirts. One Mom said this would be a good thing for the kids to purchase for Christmas presents for the parents. I flippantly said, "that is better than the fart making thing will sell in the holiday store." The room got silent then a Mom said "oh you mean a whoopie cusion." I wanted to crawl in a hole. I don't even say that word at home much less in public. I just proceeded with the meeting.
My favorite line to the school's staff
"And were is it in the volunteer contract? I know I signed four but come on!"
I am also amamzed how the same question can be asked by one parent but in SO MANY different ways and each form of their question gets the SAME answer and before we know it 20 minutes is gone and this parent is STILL not happy!
Also our former Prez was REALLY good at quoting by-laws that we don't have! As the Secretary, I kept the by-laws up to date and know them to heart! So much fun!
Looking forward to my Presidency. What a great adventure!
Fun topic!
I recently went thru our end of year surveys & one parent commented that it was a shame that she always saw the same faces helping at events. At the bottom of the form was a line asking if they wanted to help plan an event for next year (most people left it blank...). This person filled in a big "NO"!
Go figure....
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During a process that required background checks on all our board members, I had to collect personal information for each and discovered that one of our committee chairs
1) doesn't have a social security number (and, I suspect, doesn't appreciate the government's issuance of them)
2) thinks she has a driver's license -maybe, but not in this state (She's been here for YEARS)
3) her actual first and last name are not the same names she uses and that we all know her by.
No she's not a fugitive, just part of a rather avant-garde family, and happily gave me all the alternative information so they could track her both ways. The whole thing was just way more than I wanted to know about another family's personal life.
We had a mother involved in a custody fight request copies (or lack thereof) of the father's PTO memberhsip form as part of the evidence of lack of parental involvement on his part. Messy...
