Email your pta President with constructive feedback, go to PTA meetings, volunteer to help out at the school fairs. Read the pta and school newsletters. If you want to change things or have influence over them, find out what’s going on and find a way to get involved.
Maybe you don’t realise just how incredibly difficult it is to organise a school fair. It takes months of planning with a lot of people getting involved and a lot of thought goes into it. All the while parents who are volunteering to run these fundraisers are juggling their own work, childcare, elder care, and other commitments. Sometimes, there are things that could be done better, but it’s no use complaining on a forum if you’re unwilling to provide constructive feedback and participate in helping to make the next fundraisers meet your expectations.
School budgets are shrinking and things that taxes used to pay for are not going to schools anymore.
I wish we had made that kind of money on our school fair, then we might not have to plan so many other fundraisers to make sure our kids have decent playground facilities, science workshops, health education, special treats for leavers, ICT tablets and a usable library.
Did you know that there is no requirement for a school to have a library? How does a school with families from a wide range of incomes, a wide spectrum of family education levels, and a substantial international population across all age groups ensure that all children have access to books to match and challenge their interests and abilities if there is no requirement for state our council funding for a school library. How do kids beat the obesity crisis if their playgrounds are falling apart? How do you foster a sense of community in the school if you’re talking behind the backs of the active volunteers instead of joining in and making a difference, constructively sharing your perspectives and experiences to make the pta fundraising benefit all the kids?