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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school is like this and it's been a big challenge (I have a kid in 3rd grade and one in 1st grade).  [b]No directory, no room parents, no contact lists, and teachers are only willing to let you hand out invitations if they are going to the whole class.  We haven't found a great way to deal with it yet.[/b][b]  We've had a little luck focusing on just a few kids who are close friends with my kids, sending in a note with our contact info and asking their parents to contact us or to send in their contact info in return (rather than sending in a direct invitation). But that relies on my kids passing off the note to their kids, then having their kids pass it on to the parents, and having the parents care enough to respond.  To be honest, we've focused on inviting non-school friends to birthday parties o(friends we still have from preschool or other activities), and just had a couple of kids from school attend in the years we've been at this school.   Oh, and the parents have typically stayed at our house for the birthday parties we've hosted. Good luck![/quote]

See bold. Consider volunteering to be the parent who heads up the creation of a school directory. Yeah, that doesn't help OP in the short term, but maybe OP and this PP can get this going in their kids' schools. Unless there is blanket objection from most parents on privacy grounds, you should be able to do this pretty readily. Maybe post on here, or on other forums for elementary kid parents, to ask how other schools do it. It's pretty common to have a school directory in elementary schools. If your school bans it for some reason (and maybe OP's does too?) I'd inquire about why.

If no school directory is in the works or you don't want to take it on, then ask why there's no room parent and volunteer for that if you have time and if the teacher wants it.

Those of you with no room parents, is that because the teacher or the school as a whole doesn't work that way, or because no one stepped up to do it? Whether or not the room parent provides contacts to all parents, the room parent can be a big help in other ways. Just curious at the lack of room parents and the lack of any directories at some schools referenced here.
--parent of a high schooler whose 2 elementaries both had directories that were heavily used by us all....[/quote]

This is the PP. Our school just isn't set up like that -- there have never been requests for room parents, and only one of the teachers (of five my kids have had) had a sign-up at the beginning of the year asking if anybody wanted to volunteer regularly, although they do all ask for volunteers for specific events like room parties (which the teachers organize themselves).  I'm active in our PTA, which has very low parent participation.  I would love to have us do a directory, and have raised the idea in previous years, but the current set of volunteers are spread too thin with the other stuff we are already doing (and the administration was lukewarm about the idea and not forthcoming on how we could get the information).  I will try again to see if we can get somebody to take it on and post here if we need ideas. Thanks for the encouragement.[/quote]

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