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Who else is a reluctant class rep?

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Yabbadabbadooo · 23/04/2008 19:34

Got blardy well roped in and it's a complete PITA. Stupid wimmin and silly nonsense. Also feel like am being pushy just trying to get a contact list together.

I'm not cut out for this Doyenne of the School Gates malarky. Can't I just drop 'em off and do a runner?

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Yabbadabbadooo · 23/04/2008 21:15

OMG - don't tell me you all love Class rep'ing?

What am I missing?

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scaryteacher · 24/04/2008 11:25

I'm a class rep and I don't enjoy it, but no other bugger volunteered, so here I am.

DS is at secondary, but an international school, so they have class and year reps all the way up. I got cross when I didn't produce a class list as we all get a booklet with everyone's name, e-mail and phone number in, so i didn't see the need for one. One mum got cross as it was easier for me to produce the list than for her to look numbers and e-mail addresses up .

I don't want to do it next year, but I don't suppose anyone else will want to do it, so I'll get stuck with it again.

MrsSchadenfreude · 24/04/2008 20:43

Scaryteacher I got stuffed with that at the same school too, and I was the only bugger who worked outside the home as well. It was fucking thankless - non-stop whingeing from yummy mummies who had nothing better to do than play a gentle game of tennis or get their nails done.

Agree with that bloody list!

Ended up wanting to smack the whole fucking lot of them and the teacher and got whined at by organising the end of year Mums' dinner in Stockel because most people were too fucking frightened to leave bloody Tervuren.

"Oh can't we go to Paradiso or Het Park?"

It was the most stressful thing I have ever done and would rather eat my own hair than do it again.

FluffyMummy123 · 24/04/2008 20:44

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MehgaLegs · 24/04/2008 20:45

I'm so bad at it that I keep forgeting that I am the class rep.

MrsSchadenfreude · 24/04/2008 20:45

I am clearly still scarred from the experience - can you tell?!

The mummies in that class were particularly precious, I have to say. One asked me "why did you bother having children if you gave them to someone else to bring up?"

FluffyMummy123 · 24/04/2008 20:46

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MrsSchadenfreude · 24/04/2008 20:49

Oh and I got "see me" in the home school diary and had to see both the teacher and the head of infants as I appeared to have inadvertantly upset someone. I was asked "if I had not had many dealings with foreigner before." Felt like saying I'd had plenty of dealings with foreigners not thick as shit ones, that was all.

Quite laughable really when you consider what my job is.

MehgaLegs · 24/04/2008 20:49

I just have to get people to make cakes, do the cha cha slide at the school disco and make a rota for the summer fete. That sort of thing. i don't socialise wuth them. I asked DH if he wanted to go to the PTA dads pub night and he told me to Fuck off and he never swears.

Is a big clique but i just flit about the fringes.

MrsSchadenfreude · 24/04/2008 20:50

Cod - it was seen as a "nice way to get everyone to integrate."

marina · 24/04/2008 20:50

Snort at MrsSchadenfreude and the precious mamans of Tervuren

I'm class rep and I don't mind - but we aren't duplicating effort with our list.

About 50% of the year WOTH f or p/t so organising events is more efficient by e-mail, I reckon.

MrsSchadenfreude · 24/04/2008 20:55

Christ, Marina, I only have to think about it and I come out in hives and start hyperventilating!

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scaryteacher · 25/04/2008 21:44

I'm dreading next year Mrs S as it's year 8 plays, and guess who'll get lumbered! I've recently had to send out letters telling them I'm going to close youth club, as I have no committee members bar me next year.

Had four responses to date from year 6 parents and 1 year 7 who will help, but I'm at the other 150 families who don't volunteer even for 1 YC night a year, drop their kids way too early and then turn up late to pick them up. There's been notes in the school newsletter about that as well. From September there will be a requirement for a parental consent form - no form, no YC, and for 1 YC evening per year. I shall have far too many adults turning up, but the point has to be made. It's always the Brits or married to Brits who keep that place running.

LyraSilvertongue · 25/04/2008 21:46

Yabbadabbadoo, why are you doing your class list in April? Surely September would have been better.
I'm a class rep, reluctantly at first but I've enjoyed all of it except the run-up to the Christmas bazaar when my class was landed with the bloody craft stall and we had to make everything.
There's three of us so we split the work between us.

squeaver · 25/04/2008 21:56

I have been very reluctant class rep since Sept and still haven't done the bloody contact list. I have one mother who has given me seven separate pieces of paper with her details "to go on the list". Now I'm just avoiding doing it on purpose...

squeaver · 25/04/2008 21:56

btw mine was a "no other bugger" situation too...

scaryteacher · 25/04/2008 22:03

Oh and Mrs S, I live in Tervuren but drive to Stokkel regularly for the fab market and Pain Quotidien!

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