Where do these people come from???-Venting

September 22, 2009

I am venting, but if anyone has any suggestions on what I'm about to moan about,

please fill me in, because right now, I can't see straight.

Last year, I was the first room mom in 's developmental class. There was

another mom whose child had been in this class for several years, and she holds

a seat on the PTO board, but she couldn't understand why I was allowed to be the

room mom, when according to her, she had been asking for years (untrue). What

she had been doing is at the last minute, say before the Holiday party, she

would ask if she could do something, but by then, it was too late.

Okay, I worked my rear off last year...we coordinated so that the kids in

developmental could have their own party with each other, and those that could

and wanted to, could go to their grade level parties. When the PTO gave each

child a sports bottle as their " gift " , I pushed back and said that if I was the

parents of the kiddos in the wheelchairs who are paragplegic, I would be

offended by a sports bottle that my child would never be able to use. When the

Carnival came around and the PTO wanted me to get the parents in my class to

volunteer in other grade level booths, I pushed back and said we wanted to do

our own booth...and we did and our booth was THE MOST POPULAR and money making

booth at the carnival. We worked HARD...this mother I am complaining

about...she (instead of sending money to buy the Tag Reading system for the

class as a Christmas present) she sent separate little gifts for each

teacher...all the other parents

contributed to the gift that the teacher really wanted. For Valentines,

instead of sending any of the items I requested to ice and decorate cookies, she

showed up with cupcakes...we were making cookies (?). Her idea for the carnival

was for our booth to be an advocacy booth...do wheelchair races and blindfold

kids so they could see how it feels to have a handicap...I have no problem doing

this, but a carnival is a place to have fun, not walk away feeling bad. She

signed up to help at the carnival, but didn't show up to help at the booth, she

had strep, but I did see her several times taking photos at the carnival, since

that is her position on the board is to be the historian.

So, we all had swine flu last week and I was not able to go to the volunteer

coffee, but I had already sent an email that i wanted to be the room mom again

this year...and guess who is the room mom? Not me...this woman. I don't even

care about what she did with regards to our room, she is the biggest,

backstabbing gossiper I have ever met in my life. I kept getting into trouble

last year over stupid things because I am an outside of the box thinker and,

well, you all know how much resistance people like that get from those who want

everything to stay the same...why change when the system works just fine for the

normal kids, right? So, I baited her, fed her some BS and it only took about 2

hours before I got a phone call from the PTO president and the principal...I

told them both that I had baited her.

All I want is for the kids in the developmental room to have what all the other

kids have, and if they can't participate, then they still deserve to have

parties, appropriate gifts from the PTO, the opportunity to participate in

school fundraisers, etc. I had such a good response from the parents in our

room. For years, none of the developmental parents even knew each other, and now

most of us meet outside of school, etc.

Where does this woman come from? Why all the drama? I expect the drama and all

the junk that goes along with it from the women who have never had a special

needs child or person in their life; I'm used to it...the gossiping, the dirty

looks...that's stuff is easy for me to deal with...but from a parent who HAS a

child with special needs? Sorry, this has probably been a big, long, babble

fest, but I am really mad at this woman. I know her intentions are not right

and it makes me sick to my stomach. And I'm sad, even though I will be the

Assistant room mom, I don't want her making some stupid activities that will

undo all the hard work me and other parents did last year. We have a new

principal and pretty much a new staff for the developmental kids, so all my

support is gone. Any other parent, I would be jumping for joy because that

would mean that maybe they saw something last year and thought, I can make a

difference. But this

woman, she's whacked.

Okay, I'll stop babbling. i even took off of her baseball team because

this woman ran the league and her husband was 's coach and she was causing

so much trouble for me at school I was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep my

mouth shut at baseball...grrrrr.

Moyers

Kay Independent Sr. Beauty Consultant

832-816-7992

www.marykay.com/jendmoyers

September 22, 2009

What a wack job! I'd be offended too. But look at it this way, she won't

follow through with anything so you will wind up doing all the work. I would

keep going to all the meetings and put your input in!

Amy

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From: Moyers <jendmoyers@...>

Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 2:32:45 PM

Subject: Where do these people come from???-Venting