I'm just sort of over our elementary school, and the people. (belochka, it may not be that different from how you're feeling about M.?) I'm hoping Alik moves to a different school next year.
So I was attributing it to the fact that we moved away (and therefore Joshua hasn't been getting lots of spontaneous-knock-on-nearby-classmate's-door-and-hang-out-or-go-to-LP play dates) and sort of have one foot out the door with Joshua having sibling preference at Latin, but I've heard from a couple of other people at Maury that, post-pandemic, they feel like social ties at the school are broken...
for Maury, also, we only had a few months at the new building before the pandemic, and now parents don't go into the building, so it is still somehow foreign to me. TBH, I miss the old building. Plus at this point with such higher enrollment and so many new families of younger students I don't know it's not such a feeling of familiarity. And I'm not spending time with kids at the playground...
Yes. All of this applies to me too. I never go there anymore, we can't go into the building, there are all these people who are new, with little kids, and I don't have any particular reason/interest to interact with them.
They did try to rebuild social bonds, there was a school picnic in the fall, but it honestly wasn't the same, I didn't feel like I was a part of it anymore. I don't feel guilty, because I contributed a lot over the years, and now it's time for parents who have years ahead of them at this school, but it feels kind of sad not to be connected anymore.
People always say that when kids get older and their friends change, family friends who were friends for convenience kind of flake out. I didn't have a lot of those to begin with. Right now Danielle is the only friend that I seem to have retained at Brent, and we'll see if/how long that lasts.
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I'm just sort of over our elementary school, and the people. (belochka, it may not be that different from how you're feeling about M.?) I'm hoping Alik moves to a different school next year.
So I was attributing it to the fact that we moved away (and therefore Joshua hasn't been getting lots of spontaneous-knock-on-nearby-classmate's-door-and-hang-out-or-go-to-LP play dates) and sort of have one foot out the door with Joshua having sibling preference at Latin, but I've heard from a couple of other people at Maury that, post-pandemic, they feel like social ties at the school are broken...
for Maury, also, we only had a few months at the new building before the pandemic, and now parents don't go into the building, so it is still somehow foreign to me. TBH, I miss the old building. Plus at this point with such higher enrollment and so many new families of younger students I don't know it's not such a feeling of familiarity. And I'm not spending time with kids at the playground...
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They did try to rebuild social bonds, there was a school picnic in the fall, but it honestly wasn't the same, I didn't feel like I was a part of it anymore. I don't feel guilty, because I contributed a lot over the years, and now it's time for parents who have years ahead of them at this school, but it feels kind of sad not to be connected anymore.
People always say that when kids get older and their friends change, family friends who were friends for convenience kind of flake out. I didn't have a lot of those to begin with. Right now Danielle is the only friend that I seem to have retained at Brent, and we'll see if/how long that lasts.
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