I am not a yuppy

Posted By: Volunteer. on 2005-08-29
In Reply to: DD is a 1st grade teacher, and is ready to throw in the towel - venting for my daughter

I volunteered 1 afternoon a week all through my daughter's kindergarten class. It was encouraged. I wasn't sitting over her shoulder or getting in the teacher's way. I was helping to get reading books together, helping in the computer lab, getting assignments ready, bulletin boards, handing out snacks. Our school just sent out paperwork for different things you can volunteer for. The teacher said she needed help with th day homework is due. My help isappreciated. I also did this for my brother before I was a mom in kindergarten and first grade and was also appreciated then too. If I knew I was not wanted, I wouldn't volunteer and if I knew it was disrupting my daughter's class, I wouldn't volunteer. I do it because they need volunteers and I can.

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DD is a 1st grade teacher, and is ready to throw in the towel - venting for my daughter
- I am not a yuppy - Volunteer.
- With 10 years under her belt and the distinction of one of the top teachers..you'd think she'd - interesting
- Yuppie parents today raising a bunch of big babies - lm
- This is not allowed at our school. - mtathome
  - Not allowed at our schools either. sm - Mainer
    - I agree totally. - mtathome
- It sounds to me like she needs to talk with the principal or school board. - sm
  - Mothers volunteer as "aides" at their children's schools - its the new yuppie thing
    - Mother volunteers is NOTHING new at all.... - SM
      - I remember all that, too. The parents rarely, if ever, questioned the teacher or the principal. - can see both sides of it
        I hear what you are saying. - mtathome
    - I was an aide at my daughter's school and I was no yuppie, but that was - 25 yrs ago. Ouch!
- Apparently the colleges/universities have the - saw that on news

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