i dont think your situation is unique at all. every parent group i have ever known has had involved parents/volunteers/and or officers, also be part or fulltime staff of school.
the ONLY way i could see an issue, is if your bylaws stipulate staff cannot hold board or committee, or volunteer positions (the latter would be absurd, in my view) in your parent group.
after all, ptos are PARENT TEACHER orgs, whats wrong with a member being both a parent AND a teacher? i dont see your concern. maybe there is more. there usually is.
I don't see a conflict of interest here at all. I agree with dlf that a highly involved parent is an asset to the team. As a PTO, you probably encourage parents and teachers alike to be involved.
Perhaps there is conflicting or limiting clauses in your bylaws about officer eligibility. Even at my last school, which limited officer candidates to "parents of enrolled students", allowed for staff members to run if they had an enrolled child.
It doesn't really seem, based on the info provided, that you have a problem. Is there more to the issue than concerns you?
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I don't really think it is your place to set limits on her personal or professional contributions to either place. Most of us would kill for a dedicated parent like that and to try to say that you have some sort of ability to limit her contributions to either is a bit overboard in my opinion.
You are a volunteer organization and now you have a great volunteer who is also going to be working at the school. I've actually threatened to keep my great volunteers out of the school because the school keeps hiring them. I've come to see them as a great asset to help spread the word and none of them have had any conflicts with either position so far.
If there are some issues that you might find touchy (like which projects you fund and which you don't) then if you don't think she can balance that I might speak to her about those particular aspects and ask for her confidentiality (as she would yours as a volunteer who is helping a teacher with her students) but I wouldn't presume to have any other type of authority in the matter.
My group is facing a unique situation and I would like to get some input from everyone here.
We have an officer that has been a very involved parent in both her kids classes and, this year, she been doing a LOT of substitute teaching at all levels. I'm concerned about the potential issues that it may cause and wanted to ask you all about the pros and cons you see of this situation. Should we allow her to have be heavily involved with the administration or should we ask her to limit involvement with either the club or administration?
