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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Summer swim team cliques are a thing in May and September at our school. Very few kids in our area do summer swimming because of long wait lists by us, save for a group of local parents who have inherited sponsored country club memberships. That group gets really excited about themselves in K-3rd grade but it wears off quickly.

As for Girl Scouts, it’s the opposite of a clique. We have a troop at our school that is multiage and always begging for new members. It’s a fun activity that people just aren’t into in our school community. But at some schools it becomes a big mom-led clique, because troops are completely led by volunteers. Sometimes those volunteers use adult:child ratios and other bureaucratic hurdles that officially exist for safety reasons but twist them for their own purposes. They  to will “close” a troop to newcomers so they don’t have to lead difficult girls, girls their daughters aren’t friends with, or girls whose parents they don’t like. [/quote]

OP here. We are members of a country club but none of the kids at our school are members. If we did swim team, we would join the local neighborhood pool team.

I would like to join Girl Scouts but there isn’t a troop for kindergarten. In the upper grades, I often see large groups of Girl Scouts hanging out together.[/quote]

How do you even know they're Girl Scouts?? Are they wearing their vests or sashes around at all times?[/quote]

Not OP, but I see groups of Girl Scouts and Cub scouts hanging out together at our elementary because their meeting is about to start or just let out. Other times they all wear their uniforms to school on a specific day in September when registration is open for the school year. I don’t think a group of kids who have a shared activity is a clique. 
Kids who are interested in the same activities are likely to also be friends outside of those activities. Kids who participate in activities together, go to the same church, go to the same camp, or live walking distance from each other are likely to friends because they get to know each other through proximity.

If all of your daughter’s school friends are doing an activity, you can look into it. If your daughter is your oldest child it may seem like some people have set friend groups or are already registered for activities. That’s because they have older siblings. My kindergartener knew half of his soccer team on the first day because their brothers are on his older brother’s teams or Cub Scout Den. [/quote]

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