The Shi^^er's Delight."

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

You tell Mr. Wonderful he is OKAY!

kma mom-I'm trying to understand...the PTA doesn't have anything to do with this? Is your group not a part of it? You can't get the PTA president to talk to them? I might just display that darling basket with their class name on it!
If I were the room mother, I'd be mortified!!
I might just have to blow that bunch of folks off!

Boy, I hear ya on "that's not my job as room mother". I've heard that before!

Good luck!
Shelly

Shelly--the class mothers WERE our first choice!
BUT, that ever present "nameless parent" we all seem to have amongst us who loves nothing more than to be a PIA had a HISSY FIT and said that this was NOT part of the class mother duties (it's convoluted, but my group is not the "official" school group--we have a PTA who "sponsors" the class mother program. Right now my group is raising funds for a playground). As our teachers are quite well-known for their...lack of enthusiasm I REALLY didn't want to use them for fear of adding to their already "burdened" day, but our principal supported the hissy-fit mother, and since we feel that the path of least resistance is the best taken by us right now we followed that lead.

We were of half a mind to buff the basket up ourselves, but as we (well actually our principal) was just approached by a "concerned" parent who wanted to know if funds we are raising for the playground are going towards things like our printing costs (ie newsletters etc), we felt using our funds towards this would be "wrong."

We're having a meeting with all the "Powers That Be" tomorrow, and we'll be asking how they'd like to handle this.

Mykids--once again you are too much! When I told my husband about this he suggested we throw in a National Enquirer, wrap it up and call it "The Shi^^er's Delight." Vulgar, I know, but I admit I laughed hysterically when he said it!

[ 10-18-2004, 02:07 AM: Message edited by: kmamom ]

I would just calmly and politely take the teacher aside and explain that the cleaning solution somehow broke open and that it appears to have ruined the basket. Then perhaps since they did it in "good faith" (roll eyes/sarcasm) that PTO would just take care of it. Then toss it in the garbage far away from school (so no one sees) and consider with your other PTO members whether to make a substitute basket with the same theme, using anything that is useable, and adding a few dollar store items or not.

Hmmmm....I think it's interesting that the teachers are expected to be donate items. We would never ask the teachers to be in charge of this--room mothers would totally be in charge of this. We do ask teachers to donate an "outing" at our annual gala-auction i.e. : a trip to the movies and dinner or a picnic and a trip to Barnes and Noble. If the basket that was donated was a piece of junk, I wouldn't hesitate to call the room mothers and ask them to see if they couldn't work on it a little more. I'd make it their responsibility. Our teachers have enough to do without putting this on them. Just my .02 as to how our school does this kind of thing.
Shelly

I say if all you get is a roll of toilet paper & a candle(which you did) from a class, wrap it up and stick it out there. The teacher should be ashamed of herself! She could have reminded the class "IF" they want to participate. A gentle reminder is not much to ask of the teachers!