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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Don’t beat yourself up, OP. It’s hard to have insight into a grade cohort from the outside.

Our school has some girls in 3rd grade and 4th grade who try older girl behavior and are not nice, but it’s only 2-3 out of each grade. 5th grade is a cohort known for being bad at welcoming new kids and very cliquey as well as concentrated in a few neighborhoods. In my DD’s 4th grade class, the other 18 are really great about befriending the 2-3 new girls we get per year. The school helped by having those new girls paired with hosts during their visits last year and choosing them very carefully to match personalities and interests. My DD and her friend both hosted girls who ended up becoming their new BFFs this year. The school did a lot of deliberate work in the background to connect parents, consider lunch and classroom placement, etc. to make sure the new kids would be welcomed.

For anyone else reading this post and thinking about switching schools, I would be upfront about asking the new school how they integrate new families into the community.[/quote]

Our school has such a program and despite emailing and trying to set up a playdate our 'ambassador' family just blew us off, didn't even bother to set up facetime before school that I suggested, just ignored my emails. I had to network my own way to get her playdates before school started.[/quote]

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