I was elected president of our pto this year. There are four elected officers, with none being teachers. We have decided to do things different from in the past. We usually have a fall festival, but because of construction for our new school, we are unable to have the festival until Spring of 2004. In the past the teachers received $100.00 from the festival if they worked a booth. But this fall we will not be able to do this, so, we decided not to give the teachers this money and to use our fund raiser money to purchase a large item for the school. We have approximately 60 teachers/staff, so we feel this would be a great deal of money to be able to purchase something ie. playground equipment or special equipment for the teachers. But after our PTO Meeting I had several teachers complaining and saying they deserved that money and they had already spent that money on items for their class rooms. I was also told that we would not receive any teacher help on any fund raisers we had. I am at loss here, I don't know what to do. We are a school with aprox. 1000 students, pre-k to 3rd grade, so there are always needs that the county can not help with. I need some help on this. I want to stand firm on the decision we made but I don't want to be a donkey either. I am in this for our children and school. Some of the teachers act like I am getting paid for my volunteer work. HELP!