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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a buddy family and you haven't called your new family yet, get on it. How rude. The new family is nervous enough enough without your absence. Tge child has all kinds of questions, the parent has questions, and you should be doing exactly what you signed up for. [/quote]

Buddy families are volunteers, not servants for hire.  The previous poster sounds like OP in a new, irritating guise.

Any family that is so neurotic that it can't deal with the run-up to a new school without a buddy family deserves to remain buddy-less.  Which OP may be.  
Not all incoming families will have a buddy family, because sometimes there aren't enough volunteers.  Summer is a busy time for a lot of families, between camp and vacations. In that eventuality, the admissions office will prioritize the nicer families, i.e. those they most want to retain.  So maybe OP has already irritated the admissions team enough that she wasn't assigned a buddy family.

When we were new to a school. We were pleasantly surprised when we had a buddy family, but neither expected nor demanded one.  My recollection is that we were mostly contacted in late July or August, so being stressed about it in June is just plain silly.  [/quote]

They prioritize according to niceness and who they want to retain? Lol that's outrageous. [/quote]

Yep, that's the way it works, OP.  If they have a limited number of buddy families, who do you think is more likely to get assigned a buddy?  The very wealthy families (not you, obviously, since you think $30,000 in tuition is so much money that it entitles you to VIP treatment) and the nicer ones.  Since there aren't that many super-wealthy families, the next on the priority list are the ones who make a positive impression on the admissions team.

Consider it the "little people's" revenge.   Or, you could say that it's simply human nature to want to give more to people who are pleasant and treat us well.

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I'm not OP, but thanks for the heads up. You said "us" so I assume you work for a school. It's disappointing to read this sort of tone from a school's Admissions Office.

Well, we are not concerned about our child making friends at her new school. It's not the school's responsibility to match our daughter up with friends. I know she will be just fine. She's just looking forward to the start of the school year and so are we!

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