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[quote=Anonymous]We moved our kids from a public school to a private school during the pandemic. Most of the parents at this school are very high SES and their kids have been at the school for several years. I have always been pretty outgoing and have been able to easily make friends or at least acquaintances everywhere I have been, well except at this school. The parents, particularly the women, are next level cliquish and exclusive. We have been at the school for about two years, and I have made zero friends and am only on a passing hello basis with two women who are seemingly not in any of the cliques. I have tried to forge a relationship with the two of them beyond this and have been given the cold shoulder. The others are unlike anyone I have ever seen. It is like they are wearing blinders and only see the people who are already in their group. We have attended every event, smiled, said hello to people, and tried to look for any little in or thread to start a conversation and there is just nothing. They don’t even make eye contact with us or acknowledge our presence in any way. My kids play sports and we sit with everyone in the stands and they just look over us and talk around us. When we have all been standing in a group before or after games, they don’t just have general conversations that anyone can join like at our old school. It is always some individualized conversation about someone’s trip or some such thing. And worst of all, at two parties we went to, we were finally able to start a conversation with someone, but both times, some rude woman literally stepped in front of us like we were invisible and started talking to that person without apologizing or saying anything to us.

I have, on the other, seen a few other new families come in and be immediately accepted into the group. But they are usually other wealthy families. It seems like these women have very keen tells of who is one of them and who isn’t. We must just have it stamped on our foreheads that we are only UMC. Anyway, if the education my kids were receiving wasn’t excellent, we would be out of there in a millisecond. These are clearly not our people. Surprisingly though, the kids are kind, supportive of one another, and inclusive. They could really teach their parents a lesson.?[/quote]

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