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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I had a mom literally talk through me two weeks ago at a performance. She was sitting in the row ahead of me and wanted to talk to her mom friend behind me. About stupid, trivial stuff like make up, "remember that one time," and to talk about what cool activities they did over the weekend. I was invisible, just a clear wall for them to yell through for 15 minutes straight. Our kids have been in the same class for 2 years now.[/quote]

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