To be concerned that a Mum from another class is still in our class WhatsApp group?

This would not even enter on any radar i have in the world, Why do people turn neurotic when it comes to school parents

@ImageNet I noticed Whilst going through the whatapp name list!

@vladimirVsvolodymr some posts on class WhatsApp groups can be awful if someone has a grudge against the teacher, who can’t answer back. So in those circumstances I can see why posts could be moderated. But these chat groups should purely be about don’t forget packed lunch for school trip tomorrow type posts, not children’s birthday parties, not photos of children etc. If you want a social chit chat one, you set up a separate friends one

I can't believe parents have what's app groups for classes! I can't think of anything worse!

We used to have groups for parents of the whole year group (large school) when mine were at primary school. One day when my child was in y5 or y6 I was looking through the members for a specific person and noticed there was a mum of a child who’d left the school years ago. She’d been reading all the messages over the years. Just why?! I removed her from the group, she had no business being a spectator, even if it was just a boring school parents group.

I'm not sure I could get too bothered about this, to be honest. If the child was in a different year group or had left the school, then fair enough, the parent shouldn't be in the WhatsApp group. However, the Mum has a child in the same year group, just a different class.

I volunteered to admin the class WhatsApp in nursery being supremely naive to the fact I’d still be doing it in year 6.

Send a DM to that admin or rep for your class, just in case they don’t know. Leave it with them and be done with it. Don’t give extra context because anything else is speculation. Just screenshot their contact in the chat members list, say ‘just a heads up this person doesn’t have a child in our class.’ And nothing else. It may be that she’s in both class groups because she picks up a child in your class or a friend hates WhatsApp and has delegated that to her or she got lost finding the right class chat. But the admin will know or find out if they don’t.

Then it’s off your conscience and in the hands of someone who has a better picture of the situation. Easy.

No parent in our year-group WhatsApp would post photos of children. It’s just an admin group really

A parent from the other class would be no more known to me than a parent from the class my child is in. I honestly couldn’t pick out the vast majority of parents of kids in my son‘s class in a lineup. I’ve never met them! Aren’t class WhatsApp groups just meant to be about boring things like ‘have you returned this letter and did anyone take Xs coat home’?

This. Can't believe people get worked up about a social media platform with people they barely know.

Combined with the thread about sleepovers and parents being in each other's houses for pre prom drinks, this is too much.

She's not an unknown lurker, she's another parent of a same year child. It's a non-issue.

People moderate WhatsApp messages?? Who has the time to do that 🤣

Why not just leave?!

I’m still in the class whatsapp group for a school my child doesn’t attend!
Tbh I muted it and forgot about it, no one has kicked me out yet 🤣

It sounds like a different interpretation where some people think it's all reception parents and some people think it's just for that one class?

I'm on the wrong class whatsapp...😂 I didn't think anyone would be so horrified! They mixed the classes up at the beginning of this year and I have not been aware of any new one for my kids current class. It almost never posts anything but general whole school reminders. Fancy thinking that gives me improper intentions!

‘Still’ in it from when? Why did she join in the first place if it’s the wrong class?

Omg how do you have the time 🙄

It was a past pupil in our case and a good year later. The parent was also very odd.
Whereas I’m not sure OP needs to be so sensitive about another class parent it does seem strange - kind of awkward if someone has a whole class party..
Guess the admin can make a call?

What they kicked out another same year class mum?

I can’t see the issue with another reception mum being in the group, at all and think you’d lost the plot if you mentioned it to me. How on earth should there be privacy from one reception class to the other.

Depends how good school comms are - diabolical in ours so we kind of rely on someone having asked the teacher and passed the message on. ESP if the kids are in wrap around and there isn’t that time at the school gate. But appreciate I’m probably lucky as the class parents seem nice.

The 'drama' of modern life. 🙄

I privately messaged the admin and they kicked them out when we had this. I don’t - but a lot of parents post pictures and it’s not appropriate to have an unknown lurker IMO.