I think I’m going to be posting a lot about PTA stuff since my son has entered the bright new world of pre-school. Funny, really. The only ones in the PTA meetings who seem to be ultra-excited about projects, activities, fund raisers and the like are the moms and dads of pre-school pupils. The others are just kinda there… “ho-humming” and mumbling “great. more expenses this year”…

I dunno. I like being a part of the decision making body that controls the extra-curricular aspect of my son’s school year. Parents deserve to have a say on things related to extra activities, but I understand how many parents would rather do away with the expenses connected with each parent teacher association-funded event. After all, as i told a new mom like me, “while we exult at every milestone, the other parents are just wondering how they can pay for tuition since they have 3 or more kids studying here”.

It’s a fact that the school cannot please everyone. In particular, budget-wary parents are very hard to please. Your project proposals must be extra-interesting for them to even shell out a dime.

Anyway, one awesome thing I learned today was how the schools treat gadgets. Can you imagine a nursery pupil carrying expensive, state of the art gadgets in school and crying home later if it gets destroyed or stolen? In fact, even the older students get victimized by deceitful strangers or classmates who get tempted to swipe their expensive toys. So, the administrators and apparently, the department of education, prohibited the use of gadgets in schools… anything that resembles a functional cellphone or a playstation will get confiscated and returned to the kids only at the end of the school year.

Dang, and I thought I could bring a console to school on AJ’s Birthday. There’s a television inside their classroom and my idea was to set up an xbox 360 party rather than the usual mascot-spaghetti-balloon combo.

Well, we parents have to follow rules… especially if it has been mentioned in a PTA meeting.