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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a high school, but in a college, they have an "appreciation" dinner right before casting for a music department event. The parents of the kids in the running for the lead are seated with the director of development. I kid you not. [/quote]

What college has parents involved in that way? Seems absurd and utterly implausible to me. [/quote]

Parent " get to know you" luncheons with the HOS with Advancement as well as Admissions in attendance happen each year in DC Privates.

This begins in Pre-K

If you thought that you were just being invited in small groups to for you to get to know the HOS, YOU were oblivious.

Those small luncheons or small dinner chats are carefully organized .  Hint: invites don't go in alphabetical order and are not a random group.

The AD and Advancement Head cherry pick and plan each meeting and fully brief the HOS before hand so the HOS knows who he/she will be " having the opportunity to get  to know" and  this begins the oh so polite vetting of who among the new grade level of parents will be:

* future donors for big projects

* tapped for a board seat

* tapped to be a PA Mom or a Grade level class leader to keep other parents in line

* who will run the Auction

Do you think these schools are Democracies ??
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Wow. Eight years on the Close with a HHI of over 4 MM, five-figure annual donations, and we never qualified for any “get to know you event” with anyone from development or school administration. Should I feel dissed or relieved?[/quote]

Such an unecessary, snarky comment. And that assumes it’s authentic and you are not a troll. This is pretty basic. There was no need for you to be assessed in this setting, you were pre vetted...[/quote]

Actually, my snark was directed att the first person, the one who claimed that the development office targets people for getting to know you meetings with the HoS. That's just incorrect. I have heard of no one at my kid's school who had any meal with the HoS like that. The PA parents were all volunteers, and general emails went out to all parents asking for them to consider positions in the PA. The auction chair? When my friend was asked to do it, she didn't get any "getting to know you" meeting. The way people on this board pretend it all happens isn't based in reality.  [/quote]

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