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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're at a Catholic school, are you Catholic yourselves? Do you attend the parish or the same church as most of the families?

IME, Catholic school families have known each other since their kids were very small, and sometimes even since they themselves were children. It can be very, very hard to break into this social group, especially if you're not Catholic. Having an only child would also be odd, for this demographic.

Alternately, do you work and the other mothers predominantly stay home? That can be another possible reason. I had the opposite experience at our Big 3. My DC got no playdate or birthday party invites for the first 6 months, then at a school event one of the dads in the class very patronizingly asked me if I worked (I am ~10 years younger than most of the mothers in the class, and look it). When I responded telling him what I did there room went uncomfortably silent and then after that all of a sudden they playdate invitations started rolling in and my kid was a hot ticket. It was absurd and gross, frankly, given how transparently it was about social climbing, but there you go. People have their own motivations which you can't take personally, and they tend to prefer people like them or who they believe they can derive benefit from knowing well.[/quote]

Now that sounds like a great school community![/quote]

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