Step parents and school mom / dad groups

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the stepparents are aware there is a Watsapp group- and the bio parents obviously are as well. I would leave it up to the bio parents to invite them in.

But really, this sounds terrible and cliquey anyhow. If you are going to have this type of thing, it should be put in general school publication for anyone interested to be able to join and how to join, you shouldn’t need a special invitation. The step parents are smart to not be involved in that

It's pretty much the opposite of cliquey - instead of just various moms getting together regularly leaving other moms out - everyone is invited to all "girls night" type things

Same for the dads - the dads will message each other for dinner on occasion

There's also an all parents chat where most of the convo is and invites that include kids are - eg we're going to this park to play soccer this afternoon if anyone wants to join, we're going to this community tree lighting if anyone else is planning on it and meeting up. i'd actually really recommend it for preventing people accidentally being left out of various groups.

And these groups involve the parents of literally every child in the grade? Having been in these groups (which I now avoid like the plague), I sincerely doubt this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the stepparents are aware there is a Watsapp group- and the bio parents obviously are as well. I would leave it up to the bio parents to invite them in.

But really, this sounds terrible and cliquey anyhow. If you are going to have this type of thing, it should be put in general school publication for anyone interested to be able to join and how to join, you shouldn’t need a special invitation. The step parents are smart to not be involved in that

But if there's a mom group and a dad group, how/why would bio dad invite stepmom into the mom's group?

there are actually gender segregated email/whatsap groups??

This is my response too. Why isn't there just a PARENT chat for the school? Why is it moms/dads? That's already strange out the gate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the stepparents are aware there is a Watsapp group- and the bio parents obviously are as well. I would leave it up to the bio parents to invite them in.

But really, this sounds terrible and cliquey anyhow. If you are going to have this type of thing, it should be put in general school publication for anyone interested to be able to join and how to join, you shouldn’t need a special invitation. The step parents are smart to not be involved in that

But if there's a mom group and a dad group, how/why would bio dad invite stepmom into the mom's group?

How does anyone join? Since you said it is open to all and not cliquey, surely there is a published POC in some school newsletter of whom to contact to join? If the step parent hasn’t reached out and inquired, stay out of it