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[quote=Anonymous]I'm just venting here - i know this has been covered before but ARGH i have had it with Cultural Care's new system.  We should be an "easy to match" family.  One older kid, right outside  a very favored city.  AP car, only occasional weekends (once every 2 or 3 months probably).  Member of the family approach.  Good history (we are on AP5, all stayed one year; we are in touch with all of them). I usually have to watch out for the lazies - but otherwise have had good success during matching.

Yet over and and over again, this year,  connection requests are ignored for almost a week (then I just disconnect).  Or they might accept the connection request and never respond to the email I send.  (they don't even disconnect - they just do nothing).   Or those that respond and are interested take FOREVER to respond to emails (some almost a week,.... without so much as a "hey, I'm really busy, I will respond next week" which would be FINE wiht me!)...... and despite knowing better, I find myself giving them the benefit of the doubt b/c 10 families at the same time is alot to juggle, along with school and/or work.   The ones who are quicker to respond end up being not good candidates (Q   "what would you do if you were watching your brother (same age as our child) and he didn't listen"   A:  I'd tell my mom and dad and they would make him listen."     Me inside my head:  "Really?!?!"   :roll:   )

I'm usually matched by now for an Aug arrival.  (I usually match in Feb or  March).   It's been months of this.  We were hoping for one more year of having APs b/c it's a great flexible system that has been awesome for us (we have been lucky and have had rock stars and are in touch with all prior APs and their families, whom we consider extended families).  DD is an only child and she loves having a cool young woman around.  But I think the delay caused by this matching system has pushed me over the edge and we are done.

OK venting over.  Thanks for reading/listening.  :)

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