Moms: Enough Already With The Volunteer Spirit

Courtesy NPR: Arts & Culture  Tue, 01/05/2010 - 11:00

Parents have long been expected to spend their free time helping out in their kids’ school—-- from chaperoning field trips to decorating the teachers' lounge, to organizing fundraising events.

But some parents, like mother and writer Helaine Olen, have had enough. Olen recently wrote a piece for the online publication Double X titled "Why I'm Sick of Volunteering at My Kid's Wealthy School." She talks about it with Host Michel Martin, along with regular parenting contributors Dani Tucker, Jolene Ivey,...


 

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