to be really cross that NO ONE can be arsed to help at PTA fayre

[nicefleece]

I have volunteered to help out at the PTA Christmas Fayre. A note was sent out last week in all 410 book bags, asking for any volunteers to help set up / man the stalls.

3 people replied, one of them is the chair of the PTA

What the feck? Shall I ask the heads to mention it? Why are people so sodding selfish! I know people work, have other kids etc etc but really....

What next? Megaphone of shame in the playground? Sooooo cross and disappointed!

As soon as people start whingeing about having 'no time' (in general) I mentally write them off.

I don't do no time/no energy/Very Important Job guff.

What's that then RR?

What nonsense Moondog, bot of my parents were teachers and did lots of volunteering include fostering. Neither of them would ever have gone to a PTA event and thought our local PTA women were loons.

I am sure other teachers think differently, because teachers do not have the communal unimind.

so let me get this, a teacher will alter their opinion of child based upon parental pta input and think why should i care - if parents dont?

well that is alarmist,divisive
pta parents are saints those who don't are goons is hardly flattering to teachers

perhaps a teacher may care to elucidate

moondog get yer jotters write me off then

YABU I participate in other ways...spending loads of money at these events, helping in school etc etc. I can't run stalls though for my own reasons. Don't feel bad at all.

Crack fox, Moondog & Ruby are on the climbing frame.

And how I chortle when the 'no time' gang in the next breath discuss all the inane fodder they enjoy watching of an evening.
Plenty of time for stuff like that in most people's lives.

Working as I do in the public sector I am astounded on a daily basis at the lack of interest, effort and involvement that most peopel put into their children's develoopment,I really am.

Oy - what about ME on the climbing frame?

You clique.

agree with moondog....

all the people saying they have no time will spend hours on mumsnet...

I'm pretty sure the teachers at my ds's primary regard the PTA as a PITA .. TBH

No special priviledges

Sadly we don't have a climbing frame to crow from.

OP has been proved right in her assumption about parents helping out - too busy, got better things to do, not our job, work all week, don't want to, not interested, why should we...in other words can't be arsed!

Why not just say you can't be arsed instead of making excuses? Fair enough if you support the school and attend events and it goes without saying that there will be people who can't do things for various reasons, but 3 out of 410 possible volunteers at OP's school is lamentable!
If you don't want to get involved/volunteer/donate, fine, you don't have to, but to get so indignant about just being asked in the first place is laughable!

I don't volunteer or go to these sort of events.

Believe it or not, it's because I don't have the time.

I'm sorry you're frustrated about this but why not invest your emotional and physical energy into something else?

lol dont some pta types big themselves up.brown noses.

My son's school has the Christmas Fayre on a Friday afternoon.

I can't go.

Unless someone from the PTA offers to cover my lessons?

Bibbity bobbity - of course! My favourite comment!

Anyway, must dash, sanctimonius wrapping of lucky dip things to do. Ok. Not really. Too busy, I mean, really angry, ummm, chocolate, oh god my head has just blown up!

Will cancel the hairspraying stall and human fruit machine stall, all will be well and mincepies will be eaten.

Seasons greetings - thank for responding so passionately to my OP!

Ask a few people personally, fleece. Not everyone's a bastard.

Moondog's comment utter nonsense. In my experience when working in schools the teachers certainly didn't base their committment to a child based on whether its mother manned the crispy cake stall at the summer fayre fgs.

PTA members bossy monicas in my view (see, I can do the ridiculous sweeping statement thing, too).

PTA work all very nice for people who have nothing else to occupy their time. Some people simply do not have the time.

Plus there are far more valuable things you can do in the community than go to PTA coffee mornings and raising money for skipping ropes.

I have to say that manning a stall would really be very difficult for me. I have an autistic spectrum disorder that is totally concealed and I make an effort to behave properly around other parents and teachers. I would hate to man a stall, I would not know what to say to people, I would probably be accused of looking miserable because I didn't know how to behave.

You would NEVER pick me out as ASD or antisocial at the school gates as I work hard to hide it, so don't think that I am an isolated case. You probably think I'm lazy on the off chance my DC are at school with yours.

Plenty of NT parents would find the idea of manning a stall hellish as well for social reasons. Think of threads on MN where the OP talks about being isolated/shy/not having many friends etc after having a baby or whatever - loads and loads of posters respond saying the same.

At our school, I have donated the requested items and I plan to take my family to the event.

I hope to god you've organised your liquor licence OP as I reckon you'll need a few calming brandies on the day if you get this het up about it.

im not indignant about being asked. its the fact that because i have other things in my life makes me selfish, and that i should be ashamed that pissed me off.

haha,yes dont ask the bastard working parents.ole bob Cratchit might not get some the time off.and remarkably some parents cannot spare the time either