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August 8th, 2009
Question: Parent Teacher Organization-Is it wrong of me to feel relieved?
The last two years I was the “Events Coordinator” for my daughter’s school’s PTO. My husband was the president of the PTO (and effectively I was his personal secretary). The last two years I’ve created all the fliers, brochures, agendas, volunteer solicitation, funds/grants applications and newsletters for the PTO, as well as working every event from pre-event coordination to clean up. We voted in a new board last night and the new secretary will take over the fliers/brochures/fundraising/newsletters and the Events Coordinator will do the volunteer/pre-event coordination. I am SO relieved to not be on the board anymore I can’t tell you. My husbands comment was ‘don’t look so relived!” (he is the new VP). I mean the position I was doing has been split between two people (and the secretary gets all the templates of all the above mentioned literature). Am I in the wrong to feel so relieved?
I’ll still be volunteering at every event and sitting in on board meetings.
Answer: no not at all. I have never done as much as you but I used to go to every PTO meeting and volunteer to chair events and at every meeting it was the officers, me and maybe one other parent show up for the meetings and so I felt obligated to take on events to chair them and so forth. After awhile I got burnt out and frustrated and it ended up where I stopped even going to the meetings because I was tired of it. I have 4 kids and my husband works two jobs, I just didn’t have it in me anymore. I still volunteer at events to help and I go on field trips and volunteer in the classroom but no more PTO meetings or chairing anything. I felt guilty at first but I was relieved also to not be doing so much anymore. I never even got to enjoy my kids at the events because I was too busy running it. It’s nice if more people step up so it’s not all on one person.
Belinda Stradley, part 07 of 07: “Preserving and Protecting Rights”
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