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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This would be the nightmare school scenario for me. Bunch of nosey, bored biddies acting like some random elementary school is the center of the universe.

I would venture to guess that most parents would be perfectly happy being generally friendly with other parents but are not looking to bffs with the pta.[/quote]

This is me. I get annoyed when others are unfriendly, not because it thwarts my efforts to me close friendships, but because I will need to interact with other parents at school in various ways and when they are unfriendly, it's harder.

It's like the office. I am friendly and pleasant to everyone I work with because... we work together. I need at least some rapport when we are on the same projects. Meetings and team projects go more smoothly when we get along and have at least a surface level rapport. That's how I view parents at my kid's school.

That's why cliques in these setting suck. Not because I'm desperate to break into the clique, just because it makes everything harder. When it's my kid's birthday, I want to be able to just invite the kids she is friends with and wants to invite. I don't want it to hinge on whether her friends are in the same clique as me. That's idiotic.[/quote]

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