Why do PTA parents get to reserve the best friffing seats at the school plays HMMMM?

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Seriously, pack it in.

I know you do good for the school yadda yadda but it DOES rather cheese one orf when one has being waiting for 30 minutes outside school to get a decent seat and then one finds that PTA wimmin have reserved all the good seats for them and their DHs/children's siblings. Then said PTA wimmin waft in 2 minutes before the performance starts.

You want a good seat then put the work in, m'kay? Kfanx. xxx

I rather think they do put in all the work behind the scenes, raising money, doing cosumes, doing the baking, organising sales and giving up their free time

YABU

At our school it's ancient secretaries and Governors that left 100 years ago blocking all the parents views

They have sod all to do with the school play!

Costumes are made/bought by the parents. Parents buy the tickets. Teachers do the play.

Fair enough if they want first dibs on Brenda's cakes at the bake sale but they have friff all to do with the school play so they should wait like the plebs.

YABU

At our school the PTA people who are helping out on the day get to reserve a seat for themselves, because obviously they cannot be in the queue because they are helping.

If it bothers you that much, join the PTA and help out - then you could reserve a seat too.

Are they not serving refreshments - this is sometimes why this happens.

No reserving here unless for the Governors.

The PTA don't help with the play.

YANBU. Its self entitled behaviour. Why should other parents have to arrive early to get a seat and they just waft in when they like and get to sit right at the front.

Err they are doing all the work, if you want the good seats join them.

No, no refreshments to be served. No PTA involvement in play at all. The PTA have their own pantomime and I couldn't care less if they hog the seats for that. But in the boggo standard clas snativity, they're just there as parents.

Do the PTA help with the play Buppy?

Are you sure they have done nothing? At ours the PTA:

• put out the chairs
• help dress the children
• prepare (and later serve) the refreshments

I did this a few years running and the teachers made us block out chairs because otherwise we ended up with nothing as all the people raced in while we were still working. (never got the front rows though, that was for teachers, governors, disabled parents, etc).

I would love to help with the PTA. Unfortunately as a single parent who works full time, I don't have the luxury of empty hours to fill

THEY DO NOT WORK ON THE SCHOOL PLAY X 1,000,000,000.

The PTA are not usually involved in the nativity play.

Our PTA serve teas and coffees at the school play and run a raffle, so are going around selling tickets.

So they arrive early to set up the tea and coffee and reserve a seat so that they can sit down when the performance starts

Seems entirely reasonable to me

LOL Mardy, why I oughtta...

Are they involved in the school play?

Yabu

I'm not on the ptfa but it seems a nice way of the school saying thank you for their hard work.

Unless they are shit in which case yanbu.

Pisses me off too. Wait like the fucking rest of us. The pta at dcs schools have naff all to do with the play either. But cos they're all so overbearingly pally with the teachers they can barge their way through the rest of us.

I normally sit at the back and have to miss the end to go out and organise refreshments/cake stall/ whatever. Obviously I am doing something wrong

The PTA do not work on the school play.

FFS

If it bothers you that much join the PTA.

I get a reserved seat right on the front row (smug) although only because my DS has special needs and is likely to need removing from the play

Are you sure they are not involved?

I bet their kids have the lead roles too.