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The real answer is that kids and their families are busy doing other things.  If your kid is not also busy doing other things -- that may be okay but recognize that many, if not most, college bound suburban kids are doing that.  And, their parents may well want their kid's limited free time to be focused on stuff their parents think is important.  Or, to be honest, at least coordinates with the family's other activities, and does not require their parents to expend substantial additional time and money.

Kids in middle and high school change friend groups.  Why?  For suburban kids, the answer is largely NOT that they are maturing and seeking different things in their friend group.  That's mostly baloney.  Kids are instead doing things, and possibly, if there is free time, hanging out with the kids who are also involved in the same stuff simply because it's easy.  Planning to do something after a game or activity is simple.  Trying to do something with a friend who is elsewhere is much more difficult.

So -- what can you do?  First, keep your kid involved in activities, and when schedules permit, have them plan to something with someone else in that sport/activity that fits with your timing.  That kind of thing works as the kids are on basically the same schedule.

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