Anonymous wrote:I'm new and happy to meet on August 12. If you can post on FB I'll look for that.

If LAMB existing parents are all as bitchy as the ones on this and other threads, though, I'm honestly scared to even start. But I'll happily meet other new folks and hopefully not everyone is like this.

Also - FWIW, the school we just switched from has a series of late summer play dates which started last weekend organized by the PTA. Some may not be able to come but I heard no complaining! I really hope I didn't make the wrong decision

Keep in mind that this year LAMB's first day of school is a good bit later than nearly every other school. And there is a tradition here of doing this kind of event just before the start of school. The school you switched from has different traditions, apparently. Not better or worse, just different.

What's happened in the last couple years at LAMB is people all meet at a park, and kids wear a particular color representing the community you will be in. Makes it easier to find people you might want to introduce yourself to first.

Enjoy the rest of your summer. It will be fine.

Anonymous wrote:I'm new and happy to meet on August 12. If you can post on FB I'll look for that.

If LAMB existing parents are all as bitchy as the ones on this and other threads, though, I'm honestly scared to even start. But I'll happily meet other new folks and hopefully not everyone is like this.

Also - FWIW, the school we just switched from has a series of late summer play dates which started last weekend organized by the PTA. Some may not be able to come but I heard no complaining! I really hope I didn't make the wrong decision

You made a huge mistake.

I'm new and happy to meet on August 12. If you can post on FB I'll look for that.

If LAMB existing parents are all as bitchy as the ones on this and other threads, though, I'm honestly scared to even start. But I'll happily meet other new folks and hopefully not everyone is like this.

Also - FWIW, the school we just switched from has a series of late summer play dates which started last weekend organized by the PTA. Some may not be able to come but I heard no complaining! I really hope I didn't make the wrong decision

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a back to school play date for new and returning primary students tentatively scheduled for August 27th. Be sure to join the parent list-serve and will receive all of the information. Welcome to LAMB!!

That's too bad. We had hoped from something sooner than the weekend just before the first day of school... How do we join the parent list serve? We just started receiving general back to school info from the admin about a week ago.

If you have the play date sooner, you won't know your child's class. Also remember that the kid your child befriends might also be going to the other campus.

Really don't see the point, honestly. See you on the 27th.

What is the harm? If someone wants to be an active, engaged parent and try to make it work, we should welcome that to the school. It isn't hard to find out what campus one is going too and next year we may all be together at one campus (Kingsbury) anyway. Go for it.

No harm intended. It is just a difference of opinion. Assuming the half baked kingsbury idea actually happens, I'm not driving across town for a play date.

Then ? just ? don't ? respond ?

Sounds like a real fun play date when you're already policing how people should respond to you. Nice!

Anonymous wrote:No olaydate schedule is going to work for everyone and planning it the weekend before school starts is likely best for most because most families will be back from vacation. Schedule it for July is the start of August and you'll have lots of families complaining about how they rented a house in OBX, Cape Cod, Rehoboth. You can't please everyone.

Agree with this.

No olaydate schedule is going to work for everyone and planning it the weekend before school starts is likely best for most because most families will be back from vacation. Schedule it for July is the start of August and you'll have lots of families complaining about how they rented a house in OBX, Cape Cod, Rehoboth. You can't please everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a back to school play date for new and returning primary students tentatively scheduled for August 27th. Be sure to join the parent list-serve and will receive all of the information. Welcome to LAMB!!

That's too bad. We had hoped from something sooner than the weekend just before the first day of school... How do we join the parent list serve? We just started receiving general back to school info from the admin about a week ago.

If you have the play date sooner, you won't know your child's class. Also remember that the kid your child befriends might also be going to the other campus.

Really don't see the point, honestly. See you on the 27th.

What is the harm? If someone wants to be an active, engaged parent and try to make it work, we should welcome that to the school. It isn't hard to find out what campus one is going too and next year we may all be together at one campus (Kingsbury) anyway. Go for it.

No harm intended. It is just a difference of opinion. Assuming the half baked kingsbury idea actually happens, I'm not driving across town for a play date.

Then ? just ? don't ? respond ?

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a back to school play date for new and returning primary students tentatively scheduled for August 27th. Be sure to join the parent list-serve and will receive all of the information. Welcome to LAMB!!

That's too bad. We had hoped from something sooner than the weekend just before the first day of school... How do we join the parent list serve? We just started receiving general back to school info from the admin about a week ago.

If you have the play date sooner, you won't know your child's class. Also remember that the kid your child befriends might also be going to the other campus.

Really don't see the point, honestly. See you on the 27th.

What is the harm? If someone wants to be an active, engaged parent and try to make it work, we should welcome that to the school. It isn't hard to find out what campus one is going too and next year we may all be together at one campus (Kingsbury) anyway. Go for it.

No harm intended. It is just a difference of opinion. Assuming the half baked kingsbury idea actually happens, I'm not driving across town for a play date.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a back to school play date for new and returning primary students tentatively scheduled for August 27th. Be sure to join the parent list-serve and will receive all of the information. Welcome to LAMB!!

That's too bad. We had hoped from something sooner than the weekend just before the first day of school... How do we join the parent list serve? We just started receiving general back to school info from the admin about a week ago.

If you have the play date sooner, you won't know your child's class. Also remember that the kid your child befriends might also be going to the other campus.

Really don't see the point, honestly. See you on the 27th.

What is the harm? If someone wants to be an active, engaged parent and try to make it work, we should welcome that to the school. It isn't hard to find out what campus one is going too and next year we may all be together at one campus (Kingsbury) anyway. Go for it.

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Anonymous wrote:There will be a back to school play date for new and returning primary students tentatively scheduled for August 27th. Be sure to join the parent list-serve and will receive all of the information. Welcome to LAMB!!

That's too bad. We had hoped from something sooner than the weekend just before the first day of school... How do we join the parent list serve? We just started receiving general back to school info from the admin about a week ago.

If you have the play date sooner, you won't know your child's class. Also remember that the kid your child befriends might also be going to the other campus.

Really don't see the point, honestly. See you on the 27th.

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Anonymous wrote:Another new family. We would love to organize something sooner than the 27th too!

No one is stopping you...

What's stopping us is we haven't been added to the parent listserv so we have no way to communicate with each other.

Call the school and ask them to send an email to new students. Pick a date and announce it here? Post something in LAMB's Facebook page? You won't het everyone but you'll meet some.

The listserv is managed by parents a not the school. And the parents won't have new families' email addresses to add you until Sept. They wait until everyone is nailed down - there will be people who change their minds at last minute

Helpful suggestions, thank you! The school/admin appears to be closed this week, so going that route won't work until next week and I'm not sure what to expect in terms of how quickly they'll respond to such a request.

In the meantime, I'll throw next saturday, August 12 as a possibility? If there are any takers here, could someone post to the lamb Facebook page?

We could do that! I have no idea how to post it to Facebook though.

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Anonymous wrote:Another new family. We would love to organize something sooner than the 27th too!

No one is stopping you...

What's stopping us is we haven't been added to the parent listserv so we have no way to communicate with each other.

Call the school and ask them to send an email to new students. Pick a date and announce it here? Post something in LAMB's Facebook page? You won't het everyone but you'll meet some.

The listserv is managed by parents a not the school. And the parents won't have new families' email addresses to add you until Sept. They wait until everyone is nailed down - there will be people who change their minds at last minute

Helpful suggestions, thank you! The school/admin appears to be closed this week, so going that route won't work until next week and I'm not sure what to expect in terms of how quickly they'll respond to such a request.

In the meantime, I'll throw next saturday, August 12 as a possibility? If there are any takers here, could someone post to the lamb Facebook page?

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Anonymous wrote:Another new family. We would love to organize something sooner than the 27th too!

No one is stopping you...

What's stopping us is we haven't been added to the parent listserv so we have no way to communicate with each other.

Call the school and ask them to send an email to new students. Pick a date and announce it here? Post something in LAMB's Facebook page? You won't het everyone but you'll meet some.

The listserv is managed by parents a not the school. And the parents won't have new families' email addresses to add you until Sept. They wait until everyone is nailed down - there will be people who change their minds at last minute

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Anonymous wrote:Another new family. We would love to organize something sooner than the 27th too!

No one is stopping you...

What's stopping us is we haven't been added to the parent listserv so we have no way to communicate with each other.

Anonymous wrote:Another new family. We would love to organize something sooner than the 27th too!

No one is stopping you...