We have an officer "Room Parent Coordinator". She is the go between for the PTO as well as manager of all the room parents. The teachers pick the room parent, however our Room Parent Coordinator sends out letters for the parents letting everyone know what's expected of them for each party and the room parents also have some room to make it "their" individual party.

We have room parents that are in charge of our classroom parties, and do a booth at our festival. We have some great room parents and some that are pretty lousy. In the beginning of the year we told the room parents that they need to attend all PTO meetings or have another representative from their classroom attend the meetings. That isn't happening. How involved are room parents at other schools? What do you ask of them? How do you handle classroom parties? Right now we leave it up to each room parent to figure out how they want to handle parties. They are at a certain scheduled time and most classes do very similar things. Some room parents have other parents send in items for the parties while others collect funds with which they buy supplies needed for parties. HOw do other schools do this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!