Wow, For a second I thought I was back in high school. I'm our PTO President and every year in May we hold elections. I received a call today from another member and we talked about the May elections. She said if I was still interested she was going to nominate me for another year. I said I wasn't sure because things are really busy and since I've been on the board for 6 years I thought I might want a break. I told her maybe she should run. She didn't want to because a few new members were rolling their eyes when she walked in the room and she didn't want to deal with them. She wasn't sure what the problem was, but thought it was because they want everything run their way. She said she was going to call the vice president to see if she knew who wanted a position on the board. One call lead to another and before I knew it my phone rang all evening long. I have never seen a bunch of moms act like they were in high school. It was all she said this and she said that. I'm not kidding. When the eye rolling mom was confronted by another she claimed it was because 3 months ago she called her son a brat. OMG. I quit answering my phone. We have a meeting on the 14th and so far this evening we lost 3 members because of the newbies. I made it clear to a mom that I will not be part of this little game. I don't have time. My goal is to raise the necessary funds we need to help support our school. Do these parents even see what kind of example they are setting for their children? Like I said I have been in PTO for 6 years and things have never been this bad. I'm ashamed to a part of this school district. We had the same problem when our school had a soccer club. It has since moved to the 4-h and it is being played at another school. My kids are still involved, but some moms called and said her kids and their friends wouldn't play unless she could coach. When she was told all positions were filled, but she could assist she said she was too good to assist. She then started calling the lady in charge and pretending to be other parents. HELLO CALLER ID....
Is it just our school? I think at the beginning of our meeting, I'm going to make it clear we are not here to play games. If they want to act like a bunch of children then take it to the playground. I'm going to make sure I address everything then so in the fall we can start fresh. Heck who knows, I may scare everyone off and we may start fresh with a whole new group. lol. OK, sorry so long, just can't believe some moms can be so childish.

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Unfortunatly I think this is happening everywhere now. My DS is "banned" from playing with a family because I yelled at the boy for peeing in my yard and not asking to use the potty when he was over. Apparently, I damaged his creative spirit. I think these moms never grew up or grew up with the I am a princess/worship me complex and can't realize that the real world doesn't revolve around them.

Sounds like the ladies don't care about the school and they just want to be able to boss people around and be in charge. What a shame! It should be about the kids and the school.... Not their Superiority complex.....
Austimmom- I would yell too! That is gross... Creative spirit....That's a pitful excuse for good parenting. What a messed up family your son is better off staying away from those creatures!

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I can't say it is just your school, but I can say that I have never experienced anything like that in my 22 yrs of being a parent.

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You're not alone! This is one reason I don't get involved in PTA anymore. I really believe some moms are stuck in middle school with the maturity level I've seen. Not only that, the amount of gossip is ridiculous.

I am a PTA member, but for those reasons alone, i do not go to the meetings. i volunteer to help out any school event, bake cake and cookies, help with the book fair, fundraisers, etc. but i do not ever get involved with cattiness from the other mothers at our school. it's not about them, which they don't realize, it's about the children and the school.

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I was involved in a PTA very similar to this. When my oldest DD was in kindergarten, I had parents calling me with "suggestions" on who the homeroom mom should be. There were a group of moms that did all the classroom parties together and if all weren't asked to help then none of them would come. It was very odd, and I ended up quitting the PTA, and just contacting the teachers each year and asking what I could do to help them out, whether it be in the classroom or donating supplies etc. It just seemed to work out better!

I have never experienced this first hand myself, but I have seen it happen with other parents. It's a sad thing when adults have to act like that.

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You're not alone. I'm not sure if our PTO has ever gotten that bad, but I know they're nothing but a bunch of cliquish snobs. That's why I won't have anything to do with them.

Oh good grief. How is innappropriate peeing supposed to be considered creative?

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as its beauty struck the darkness from the skies.
I thought how small and unimportant all my troubles seem to be,
and how lucky another day belongs to me. ~ Jerry Reed

That's too bad...I've always been very involved in my kids schools and I've never worked with people that acted like that either...not all gossipy, not psycho people. I've met the most wonderful people working at my kids schools. Just depends on the people involved I suppose.