There are some families (too many as far as we are concerned) that have the (female) parent working everyday in some capacity at the same school and in the same building as one or more of their children's classes.
As I understand it, Wesupportgifted is talking about school volunteers.
OK, I totally missed that!
Re volunteers, our schools also rely heavily on parent volunteers. While some may be there to gain an inside advantage, the vast majority of parent volunteers I've known are there for the best of intentions - because they love working with kids, because they want to help the school, to do something that benefits the school as a whole. In turn, the students love having parents at school - not just their own parents and not because they need some kind of extra special attention - the kids love getting to know adults and knowing that another "big" person is interested in them and what they are doing.
Truth is, among the parents I've known, the parents who've requested special favors such as teacher choice etc are also the parents who are too busy to help out at school.
polarbear
