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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks everyone for your replies! Very interesting.

I brought up the lunch meeting because I also thought it would be somewhat of a compromise between the needs of the SAHMs and the working parents. I can take a long lunch, but I cannot roll in 3 hours late (which would happen with a 9am meeting). Also, I'd kind of rather take a long lunch from work than drag my tired small kids to a meeting at the time when I should be reading books to them in their PJs.

I'm in a transitioning neighborhood bilingual DCPS, and the parents group currently meets at 9am. Very few working parents can attend, and I worry about what I see as an impending clash between the mostly-hispanic SAHMs, and the newcomer mostly-anglophone mostly-working parents, when the latter come in and ask to have evening meetings.

Fingers crossed for a smooth collaborative blending of backgrounds and skills. And come to think of it, it's the same potential clash at every corner and every event or decision in the school, so we'll just have to take it step by step.[/quote]

I guess I think that you're sort of assuming that everyone who works and attends your school work in the District? How would a lunchtime lunch work for people who go to NoVa or Mont County or the far end of DC? Answer: it wouldn't. [/quote]

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