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

[BaublesAndCuntingCarolSingers]

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

They don't at DD's school and they don't at my school.

What does PTA stand for anyway?

Prissy Tyrannical Arseholes?

Precious Tedious Atrocities?

I don't do sports day - we are bloody hopeless at sports in our house plus DS has SN which makes him even more hopeless so we take the afternoon off. You can knock all the other mums down like ninepins and be naked for all I care :)

This doesn't happen at our school.

adds 'baggsying the best seats' to the agenda of the next pta meeting

YABU the word is Frigg not Friff.

No the word is friff. If I wanted to say frig I would have said frig.

What is wrong with you all?! I am bloody grateful to all the PTA ladies (and a couple of men) who give their time up so I don't have to. They work very hard for little thanks so yes they can have a front seat as far as I'm concerned - they deserve it!

Same with the parent governors - let them sit at the front!! I wouldn't want to be a governor and give up hours and hours of my time so thank god someone else does!

YANBU! If it's anything like my sons school all the PTA do there is organise Disney Land trips in the summer holidays and Christmas shopping trips in December. They don't have anything to do with the play, not the costumes, singing, blah, blah! Yet they are 'allowed' to enter the school early to sit just inside reception when everyone else freezes!

Rant over haha!

Yeah Mrs B!

Right on sistah.

PPPop - that's agenda item #2 taken care of

People are so strange about PTA members on here- it makes you wish that they could disband and then people could see what the school was like without- then there would be a lot of moaning!
The idea that their DCs get main parts in plays because they are on the PTA would be laughable if it wasn't for the fact that there are people who believe such tosh! I was on the PTA and never once got a front row seat.

You anti-PTA whiners may want to remove the broomsticks from your arses and consider removing your child from activities involving any of the stuff the PTA funds. You are the reason it is so bloody difficult to get anyone to help.

When I was on the PTA I was sent a form asking how many priority seats I wanted to the Y6 production. My child wasn't even in it!
I left anyway because PTA meetings usually consisted of whining about parents who weren't on the PTA.

I am fortunate enough that I can give a little time (very little) to the school my son attends. It's just something I do to give something g back. I don't always get the best seats at plays....not even the ones my DS is in. I tend to stand at the back but if I am helping I do reserve a seat as otherwise I'd never get one...and on those occasions yes I bloody well do sit at the front. Before O get there though I am helping with refreshments, costumes or any number if other bits.

When I was on the PTA the front seats went to the first people to arrive- I was never first to arrive.

School budgets dont stretch to many extras and haing a PTA means the children get nice things and fun events. Those winging about the PTA are usually the ones moaning about everything. It can be tireless working on the PTA but thankfully a few do for the benefit of the children.

Our PTA dont get front row seats but if they have given up hours and hours of their own time over the year to help everyones children then why not? One little reward is not OTT.

Might suggest we sell first two rows for £20 a seat at next meeting [happy]

PTA members aren't the only parents who give up hours of their time to help other people's children. It's not the only thing you can do.

It isn't the only thing but they are necessary to schools theses days- as the moaners would find out if they didn't exist. Those on the PTA are generally those who do other things in addition.

We have a lovely and very welcoming PTA who work really well with the school and welcome new helpers...even if it's just an hour once a year.

As a rule we don't get reserved seats at things. The ONLY exception is if we are helping with the event in question. ...and yes that would apply even if it's only that particular day you are helping and you can't do anything else a year.

I am helping at the Xmas coffee morning today.....I doubt I will get the chance to sit down at all. The same people who moan about everything will be there and will be....er. ...moaning about everything. It wouldn't enter their heads to help though despite having time to do so as evidenced by their attendance at every event.

Why are people hating On PTA baffles me,
I dunno if there is a type either although I havn't been on the pta for 4 years I enjoyed it and 1 year many years ago we had to cancel something because of lack of help you wouldn't believe the parents comments about their little precious being so upset cos they couldn't go to the disco they had got a new outfit and everything
PTA isn't about flicky haired women who flounce about looking well flicky haired PTA works in the background doing stuff for the school ime,

oh we had to cancel on the night so children had turned up not 1 of the complainers said oh I will help out yet they all moaned and groaned

Ds1's school issues numbered tickets, and you have to sit in the corresponding seat. I'm always near the back because DS forgets to give me the letter until the day of the performance (which he's also forgotten to tell me about). It saves all the mental queuing anxiety and place saving.

"You anti-PTA whiners may want to remove the broomsticks from your arses and consider removing your child from activities involving any of the stuff the PTA funds. You are the reason it is so bloody difficult to get anyone to help."

No, the reason it is so bloody difficult to get anyone to help is that most PTAs are made up of arseholes.