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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God forbid people would find friends among the other parents and--gosh--be happy to see them regularly. [/quote]

There's a difference between having a friend and talking to them and the behavior OP and others are talking about. I have many friends. But at my kid's school, I don't just talk to the people I'm friends with while refusing to make eye contact with or interact with other people. I don't greet my friends really loudly and form a little knot of friends amid a larger group of parents, because that feels exclusive and annoying. I don't discuss plans I've made with my friends directly in front of other parents without acknowledging them, because I consider this bad manners (especially if kids are present).

It's crazy to me that there are adults doing these things without awareness of how clique-y and rude it is. When kids do it, it's like "well they don't know better yet, they need to learn." When I see people in their 30s and 40s doing it, I'm just like "oh, they like it, this is intentional." I agree with PPs who think some of it is people reliving their school glory days or even people who had a tough time socially in school acting out a kind of psychic revenge by engaging in these kinds of clique-y behaviors now.[/quote]

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