My daughter attends a very insular white middle class school where the vast majority of the other mum's don't work and have no idea how most people live. She's in year six now and whilst I could vaguely tolerate these people until now, their obsession with SAT preparation, secondary school offsted results and private tuition is literally driving me up the wall. Sometimes I feel like I'm biting my tongue so hard it will fall off. The final straw was a conversation I had with someone this week where she glared at me whilst announcing that her child had got into a grammar school and scored "in the top 5%". My daughter is doing fine at school but it's started to worry me that this competitive talk is rubbing off on her. They had a test today and the daughter of this woman was going around asking everyone what mark they got and it made my daughter feel a bit insecure. It makes me feel like a bit of a crap parent that I'm not paying for a private tutor or forcing her to do past papers or whatever else it is these alpha mummies do. The logical part of my brain tells me it's far healthier to just let her enjoy her childhood and let her focus on being a happy 10 year old. Her teacher is pretty rubbish so there's no point in bringing it up with her. I'm counting the days until July so I can be finally free of these God awful people. That sounds terrible seeing it in black and white I know 😬
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