My children started a new school in September. I made it known that I was willing to help out in the school and was asked to come along to the PTA meetings. By November, I was asked if I would be secretary as there was a vacancy. Naively I thought it would just be making meeting minutes and some correspondence.
But it is not...!
There was a meeting this week. They want an agenda, so I put together what I thought I was a sensible one and got the head and the chair to approve it. Then I emailed it to all the members telling them the date of the next meeting.
But at the meeting the chair makes it clear that as i made the meeting, I should also chair the meeting (whilst keeping the minutes) and the deputy chair doesn't like anything I do differently so she sits making catty remarks and generally glaring at me.
The whole meeting turns into a series of private conversations and they ignore the agenda they insisted I write.
Now I am getting a series of emails complaining that I didn't fully record in the minutes everything each of them said (even though there were 3 conversations at once at some points) and the chair even added that the minutes were too long so i was wasting paper (whilst giving me a list of her musings that i missed). (And they are copying the emails to each other).
It got so bad that the head phoned me yesterday to see what i think about it.
So I am fed up and want to leave them to it but I know that the deputy chair (who still looks like the playground bully I would lay money that she was) will hold it against me in the playground.