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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I want to add that I went to a private school for my entire childhood, and I had a completely opposite social experience.  Similar to this private school, kids lived all over, and my best friends all lived at least 25-30 minutes away from me, but back then people didn't seem as averse to driving as they do now.

My child has made 3 best friends in the class, and while we have invited these kids to meet up several times, there has been no reciprocation.  We have invited these kids to meet up at parks/playgrounds with the parent.  The other families always say yes to the invites, but there has been no reciprocation.  I don't really understand why.

Anyhow, we are signed up for another year but my thought is that if we continue to feel like we have no sense of community then I don't see why we should continue to pay tuition for this experience.

I feel a lot of whole-school community but none with the other families in my child's specific class.  The entire grade only has 30 kids.[/quote]

OP, reading this and your original post, you use the word "we" an awful lot.

This is your child's school. "We" do not attend the school, "we" are not in third grade. It sounds to me like you thought you would be making parent friends when you joined this "community." I can tell you right now that is an unfair expectation. If your child is happy and is being well-educated, that is all you can ask for. If you happen to stumble upon some mom friends that you really like, that is a bonus, but it's not why you are at the school.[/quote]

This is interesting because in all of the welcome/accepted students events I’ve attended (for LS) they’ve stressed how close the parent community is, how they get together outside of school, help each other through tough times. So those are lies?[/quote]

Marketing. [/quote]

+100. At some point in the past 10 years, this has become a popular trope among schools. "We're like family." "We're a close community." on and on ...I don't see how a school can even speak to that. When you look at any school, you really need to take all this with a grain of salt. It's just marketing and branding.[/quote]

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