construction projects though not being directly responsible for getting
things done, party planners helping with an event. Other times it has not
worked out well--hiring a parent who is a carpenter to do a significant
portion of a construction project. While we are paying him, he is hard to
fire and boy do I want to.
Be careful.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Mitch Bostian <
mbostian@theberkeleyschool.org> wrote:
> All --
>
> Please excuse any cross-posting.
>
> Do any of your schools have guidelines in place to clarify relationships
> between the school and parents who volunteer their professional expertise to
> assist on campus projects -- above and beyond the usual volunteer hours, in
> return for tasks that they would normally be compensated quite well? I am
> thinking, for example, of an architect parent who gives her time to develop
> plans for a new classroom, or a landscaper parent who spends a great deal of
> time working on a master plan for the school grounds, or a software
> engineer...you get the drill.
>
> In these economic times, we are seeing more of these school/parent
> relationships, and I am eager to keep them as clear and well-defined as
> possible -- particularly because some of the projects may not come to
> fruition, and it's tough to tell a parent who has put a lot of time and
> professional expertise into a project that, in fact, it might not be funded
> that year.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mitch
>
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