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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teacher should randomly pair kids. It will be more interesting and take some actual effort for the kids to work together successfully.

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OP here and I've had a teacher do this and appreciated the idea but in reality this is miserable because then you are trying to coordinate with the parent of a kid your child may barely know, and parents are not always responsive or interested in this, and meanwhile your kid is pestering you about "have you talked to Lucy's mom yet? Does Lucy have a red dress? Do we need to buy a striped shirt? Lucy said she has a striped shirt!"

This is not the hassle I kneed on a Tuesday night, you know?[/quote]

"Larla, figure out if Lucy has a purple, blue or pink shirt. If you want to twin with her, you have a lot of those colors. Otherwise you can wear your Cougar Elementary school shirts."

You are making it WAY more complicated than it needs to be.  [/quote]

You seem to not understand how the timing works.

You find out your kid has been assigned to Lucy for twin day at like 5pm the night before. At this point your child has talked to Lucy but because they are both 7, neither is sure if they figured out what to wear. Your kid is panicking -- did they agree to purple or blue? Can you call Lucy's mom?

You've never met Lucy's mom but you find her number in the directory and call or text. If you're lucky, she responds and you work it out. But sometimes you get no response. Your kid frets all night about if they are going to match.

The next day, Lucy is absent. Meanwhile, hours of your life will have been distracted by this completely manufactured drama for absolutely no reason. Within 48 hours, everyone will have forgotten about it. And yet schools continue to create this fake problem for parents to deal with year after year. Why? Because moms' time and bandwidth doesn't matter to anyone.[/quote]

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