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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so as a prospective nursery mom who in general doesn’t care much about the mean girls and always makes a friend or two in a crowd, because I’m nice and genuinely like people, in theory I should be ok...right? We’re pretty middle class for the independent school set. I just need to know that my kid will be ok. I have lots of my own friends already but want to make sure my child finds a group.

What is the 8th grade outplacement looking like this year? [/quote]

So for me, I felt the same say. Plenty of friends, not looking for that from school. But I did want to volunteer. I did want to be involved, for my own experience as well as my child's.... That's the rub. It just gets really weird and uncomfortable when you want to do more than dropoff. [/quote]

Were you blocked or excluded from volunteering?[/quote]

Longtime St Patricks family. Yes it is hard to get homeroom parent in lower grades but in higher grades they are begging people and I mean begging. The lower school room parents though wield a lot of power as they control the trip volunteer sign up and there should be a rule that the homeroom parents need to abstain from going on all the Kennedy Center trips. Never in 10 years did I get on that trip ever. It was always the same people and it got old real  quick. I also have no idea how those parents get chosen to be room parents. Then parents get annoyed and then years later when they need a homeroom parent you don't want to do it. Hmmm that is not the best. For other things anyone can volunteer and no one is blocked. I can't agree that you cannot volunteer for things like the auction, family fun day, gifts for good, teacher breakfasts. The school is always looking for people and you do not need to know anyone on these committees. Actually I could complain that in older years getting parents to do anything is a problem. I can recall no on signing up to bring food for parties and it was always the same people who would bring things in.[/quote]

That doesn't sound pleasant, but if the biggest tangible outcome is that only a small group of the same parents gets to go with the kids to the Kennedy Center, isn't the easy solution to buy your own tickets for a show separately?  I mean, this just strikes me as whining about the most petty thing . . .[/quote]

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