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What Do You Do When Parents REFUSE To Participate In The PTA?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

She’s a PTA mom frustrated by all the other parents who have been ghosting on their commitments, and she’s had enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're on the Bert show.

0:02.0

All right, I think at the end of the day, Meredith here just needs to vent.

0:08.0

We talk about ghosting quite a bit, but usually it's ghosting a date something romantic something romantic

0:16.4

although now I understand that people are ghosting interviews they're

0:20.0

ghosting their first day at work or they are ghosting. They don't even quit. They just don't show up anymore.

0:26.1

What we don't talk about is ghosting when it comes to school and not attendance.

0:30.3

Hey Meredith, good morning, you're on the voice discizer.

0:32.4

Good morning. Hey Meredith good morning you're on the voice disguiser

0:33.0

Good morning morning okay so what area are we talking about ghosting here

0:38.0

so I am on the PTA board at my kids school and every year at the beginning of the school year we have

0:47.7

a list of people to sign up who want to volunteer at the school and it's always this long extensive list.

0:54.3

And when it comes time for us to ask for volunteers for things,

0:59.5

you know, we go through this list, we call people suddenly, nobody's's available and then the people who are

1:05.6

available and it's been really bad this year will sign up and say that they're

1:10.4

going to volunteer and then the day of just not show up.

1:14.3

Wow.

1:15.3

That's infuriating man.

1:17.3

Yeah and it's like I understand you know life happens kids get sick you get you get sick, you know, maybe you had something come up at work,

1:26.0

and that's totally fine, but you have to let people know because we're relying on this help, like we're

1:33.0

volunteers ourselves, you know, and we are relying on these parents who are

1:37.0

saying they're going to come help us

1:38.0

in order to do these things for the kids and for the school.

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