You can email me if you feel like quitting or giving up. My advice is to stick it out and perservere. I remember a quote form Dawn Steel, who became President of Paramount Pictures, that says," They can kill you, but they can't eat you!"
give the troublemakers their moment, and when trouble starts to occur- make sure who gets full credit for the fiasco. You may also want to just jump in the water and do the Fall Festival without the help of your VP, I would ask other schools how they went about doing it or search the web for inspiration. My email addy is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Good luck and never surrender!
Thank you for the support. I'd like to continue this dicussion, and emailing you privately would be best. Not sure how to acquire your email address though. This saga had a very interesting turn yesterday.
Originally posted by Logthosehours: I feel your pain vic. I'm so sorry. If you get a moment read the thread about the problems with board right under the thread you have started. Steve and I are feeling your pain. Sad as that is to say. I'm right there with you - thinking about packing my stuff up. Man, I don't want to be a quitter and I don't want to let down all those parents that have welcomed the change. I am meeting with my principal this week to discuss the problems and I am going to make my decision based on that meeting with the principal. Doesn't it break your heart to see what really goes on behind the scenes when I am sure all of your intentions to help were based on the need for help with no other motives. I was shocked to see (naive to the ways) the number of people that volunteer for selfish reasons/alterior motives. I have parent starting an all out war right now because we have locked the storage area that was unlocked for two years. Amazingly enough she isn't willing to replace all the items that 'walked off' while the storage area was unlocked but she demands to be able to open when her heart desires. Come on people, how much time do we have to waste on the negative energy. Vic, you have to take stock of how it is effecting your life. You have to make sure you are going to be able to to mentally/spiritually/emotionally take the abuse from the old board and the principal. That is tough. I know. I've been taking it for almost 2 years. There have been good days. But boy those bad days drop me to my knees. I'm interested to hear how you do. Feel free to email me privately if you'd like. [img]smile.gif[/img] and enjoy this day!
I feel your pain vic. I'm so sorry. If you get a moment read the thread about the problems with board right under the thread you have started. Steve and I are feeling your pain. Sad as that is to say. I'm right there with you - thinking about packing my stuff up. Man, I don't want to be a quitter and I don't want to let down all those parents that have welcomed the change. I am meeting with my principal this week to discuss the problems and I am going to make my decision based on that meeting with the principal. Doesn't it break your heart to see what really goes on behind the scenes when I am sure all of your intentions to help were based on the need for help with no other motives. I was shocked to see (naive to the ways) the number of people that volunteer for selfish reasons/alterior motives. I have parent starting an all out war right now because we have locked the storage area that was unlocked for two years. Amazingly enough she isn't willing to replace all the items that 'walked off' while the storage area was unlocked but she demands to be able to open when her heart desires. Come on people, how much time do we have to waste on the negative energy. Vic, you have to take stock of how it is effecting your life. You have to make sure you are going to be able to to mentally/spiritually/emotionally take the abuse from the old board and the principal. That is tough. I know. I've been taking it for almost 2 years. There have been good days. But boy those bad days drop me to my knees. I'm interested to hear how you do. Feel free to email me privately if you'd like. [img]smile.gif[/img] and enjoy this day!
As the new president this year for our PTO, I have had nothing but drama. It all started when it was the third week of school and we still had not received all of the past PTO's books. In fact I could find no records in the files since 1999. The last board was the same group for the past 4 years. After many, many attempts to retrieve ANY information, I told one of them that their record keeping was lousy. Well, that did it the gossip curcuit started and it hasn't stopped. On top of that the principal (who is close personal friends with the last board) won't do anything to stop them. I now feel nausea just going into the school. I quit my job last year to volunteer full time for this school, and they asked me to be president for this year, now they are pulling a Judas on me. I feel they set my board up for failure at every turn. I have had my co-prez quit, due to harrassment at work (she is a teacher) and the vp quit due to the principal getting in her face. We were suppose to have our annual Carnival this October and without the main person, the vp who had done one before there is no way I can pull it off. With some wonderful help that came to my rescue we decided that we could do it in December giving us plenty of time. The OLD board got wind of the date change, became more enraged, surrounded my volunteer and told her that they would do it if we didn't in October. The principal calls me on the phone and tells me the news. He had already OKed the date change the day before. I feel he is undermining all of our goals and that the old board has no business telling us how to run our schedule. These women are notorious gossips and back stabbers, I was duly warned last year, but had no problems with them until I questioned their bookkeeping practices. I am drained of all energy I once had, and I feel like I should follow suit and quit like everyone else. But if I don't have solid support from the principal I can't see how it will ever work.
