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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child goes to a focus school. I think a lot of interesting insight has already been covered. One point I want to touch on is the trouble we have in reaching out to other families. There is no school directory. They tried to do one last year and we were the only people who submitted contact information for the class. So for example birthday party invitations are a logistical challenge. I want to set up play dates for my child with his friends but I have run into a couple problems. One is that some of the parents don't seem receptive to them and the other issue is the awkwardness of having an initial conversation with another parent about things such as (no violent movies with curse words and do you have a gun and if so is it unloaded and locked up)

I had to tell my child that he couldn't go to someone's house because they wanted to watch The Purge which is a horror movie. My son is 6! [/quote]

A directory could be intimidating to people who are residency insecure be they poor, illegal, staying with others, not really IB or just embarrassed by a small subsadized apt. [/quote]

Right, nobody is blaming those people for not participating, but you can't pretend that issues like that don't have an impact on the school community. [/quote]

This.  It's understandable if families feel that way, but it's also understandable to realize that it leads to a vastly decreased sense of community.  We are at a Focus school and have noticed the same thing.  We do have a directory but about half the class each year is not in it.  [/quote]

Does the directory have to include addresses? The stated concerns could be addressed by just sharing e-mail addresses and phone numbers.[/quote]

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