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

Can you join the PTA in November then leave in January?

I'm not joining the PTA just so I can shoulder barge my way through the normal people to get a seat. Even if I was a PTA woman, I wouldn't reserve a seat because I wouldn't want to front out the laser death glares from the pleb mums.

What about those parents who arrive early and then put their coats and bags across a whole row of seats so that grannies and aunties can arrive at the last minute while other parents have to sit right at the back, or even stand.

Good thinking Sauvingnon

Sauvignon is a master of evil.

I remember when we bought QBots at Legoland once. We had "laser death glares from the pleb mums" then.

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

Me too, but I do manage to help out. Posters, banking, sticking bloody raffle tickets onto tombola prizes, baking etc. I don't have to actually attend all the events to help out. I do have to put in some effort to organise my time though.

Means I get to sit at the front for the plays too so the actual effort I put in is repaid in kind!

When I was on the PTA I didn't get to save seats.

Some of the people on the PTA did though - the important ones. I was ok for making tea but not for sitting at the front.

OP do the PTA not help with the play? Are you sure????

YABU.

As a Parent Governer cum dogsbody I reserve a seat because I am running stupid preparing cakes, biscuits and various other bits before the play starts. Yes I reserve a seat or I'd never get one,

Disclaimer....it's ONE seat just for me, I don't reserve for friends and family etc

Tomorrow it's the Xmas coffee morning ....guess who will be slicing rolls ready for the sausage and bacon rolls?
Doubt Ill get a seat at the actual coffee morning lol

The chair, treasurer and secretary of our PTA are all single mums who work.

There is always some role you can take on if you really want to do so. We had one single mum who was really good at not taking no for an answer - she became our sponsorship caller - people would give the school money just to get her off the phone! She called in her lunch break at work.

I have plenty of hours to fill.

I would rather fill them sticking matches into my own turds, than fill them by being an officious busybody on the PTA.

Well, you have made your choice then.

Why are they allowed to reserve the front row seats? Lt them reserve some seats but why the best ones? Or is it so they can covertly film the play even though they aren't really allowed?

LOL so the choice is "join the PTA or get shit seats"?

This is why I don't want to join.

Our PTA was too 'Stepford wives' for me to join.

There's a definite PTA type.

I am also Mum to an autistic child who sometimes needs removing mid play ....another reason for being at the front.

Well, I don't think joining the PTA means becoming an officious busybody! So there seem to be a few false choices, going on!!

FWIW, I only think the PTA should be able to reserve seats if they are actually helping at the event. I don't think they should necessarily be at the front, but if they are working till the last minute they should have somewhere to sit. Before we started being able to reserve seats I spent one play scrunched up on the floor as there was nothing left by the time I had finished helping with costumes.

The thing is the PTA always try to lure you in with 'it's just a bit of fund raising' then when you agree to join you get elected Treasurer, Chairperson and Secretary then everyone else resigns.

Oi! I get the Handbag clip out! That's MINE!

I don't even care about them reserving a seat. But it's always the ones at the front, slap bang in the middle.

Well shouldn't they be entitled to reserve seats because they help out with the play?

"Officious busybody"

No I am not.....I love helping out....it's my way of saying thank you to DS's school who have been fabulous with him.

Also if I am not actually involved in the setting up of plays etc then I queue at the door like everyone else.

They don't at our school. Ever.