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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no guarantee that public school will help your family establish neighborhood friendships. People move A LOT and even neighbors who stick around might send their kids to private school or homeschool.[/quote]

Good on op for at least trying though. Neighborhood communities and neighborhood friends are something that kids are missing.[/quote]

thanks, PP :-)

We'd also like to meet more parents and make family friends, too.  In our increasingly online world - and before our kids get sucked into tons of weekend extracurriculars - we know the time to invest in making neighborhood friends is now! [/quote]

Is it not possible to build community with neighbors without going to the local school? Is there no neighborhood association?[/quote]

OP here. It should be possible, but it’s been surprisingly hard.

We live in an older neighborhood (about half of our neighbors are over 70 years old), and of the homes that still have children living in them, maybe 70% attend 12 or so different private schools. The kids seemed to hang out mostly with their school friends.

Yes, we have a neighborhood association but they plan only two holiday gatherings a year and most people don’t go. [/quote]

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