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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster who is tired of going to embassies for Mann fundraiser cannot be a current parent.  Held at AU Katzen  Arts center at least the last 2 years.  Also they don't sound like a Mann parent, where by and far people are welcoming and enjoy the wide variety of families and cultures at the school.  Woo hoo for being able to have the opportunity to go to a party at an Embassy.  How often can you come back from a date night and say you were in another country while you were out?[/quote]

long enough that counting the German, French, Italian, etc embassies over the last ten years and whether only spouse without security clearance attended was a HUGE headache.  Also had to list an embassy where a private school reunion (for a different school) was held.  After the security questionnaire we stopped even bothering to find out where the auctions were held, and that was about two years ago.  Try figuring out how many play dates you have to have accompanied your child on to list the parent as a foreign contact, knowing that said parent might be interviewed.... and that as welcoming and joyful as people are about their different cultural backgrounds, they don't want to hear from you that someone might be in touch with them because you concluded you had to list them as a "foreign contact."  Most Mann parents are above security clearances, I know, but facing something like a 700 page questionnaire about every foreign contact you have had in the last ten years, with attendance at functions at foreign embassies as a specific question was so not fun we decided to only attend the auctions of the school we have more kids at now.  70's date nights at embassies you forget the names of are definitely not worth it three or four years later... [/quote]

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