Annoying parents at your kids school

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Just read a thread where someone was getting an hard time for being annoyed that kids take crisps to school.

Are there any parents you can’t help but eyeroll at? Why are they so annoying? I don’t have a kid at school yet but I’m secretly looking forward to dreading the WhatsApp groups with all the moans and controversies.

The ones that think their little prince/princess couldn't possibly have done anything wrong, and if they are told they have, they turn it around to be literally anybody else's fault.

The ones that think double yellow lines don't apply to them.

Not eye roll as such, I actually keep to myself at school as much as possible.

I actively avoid Mums who want to discuss reading bands / test scores and the likes, Mums who want to gossip about other parents and other children and ones who complain a lot.

The ones in the class WhatsApp group that constantly ask "is it PE tomorrow?" It's PE every fucking Thursday. Is it Thursday tomorrow? Then yes, it's PE.

😂😂😂

I muted DS’ class WhatsApp group due to the inane chatter. There’s a MLM hun who is constantly pitching her wares. Another posts pictures of her son’s homework to stealth boast that he is writing and doing maths above his expected age.

I imagine a lot of homework complaints too.

“It’s three pages to be done by Friday. This is far too much and I can’t even do some of these sums!”

@PuttingDownRoots 🙌🏻 this and zig zags too

@ThreeRingCircus yep word for word! Also when do the kids break up? When do the kids go back? Look at the fucking emails you lazy fuck.

The school have to put cones near the entrance to the car park to stop parents from blocking access. It's always the same few parents who completely ignore the cones- I've even watched one parent drive over a cone- twice in one week!

The ones that have their noses in everything,
literally their whole lives revolve around school. Holding court at the gate , first in the queue for plays and concerts always busying around. There are too many like this.

I'm on the PTA and there's one Mum who has to pick at everything.

We've just spent the last year raising several thousand to do an infrastructure type project which is now complete and she's come up with a list of concerns that are so beyond anything anyone would ever care about it's unbelievable. I think she does it just to have her say.

I have an older stepchild and there are a few arse kissing Mum’s at their school. Calls the teachers by their first name, follows them around like a puppy at Christmas/summer concerts etc. It kills my soul to watch someone try so hard.

The one who walks along with her travel mug despite the journey from the car to school and back to car taking her slightly less than 2 minutes.
For some reason makes me quite irrationally irritated.

The parent who waits in their car on the zig zags with the engine running. Two wrongs don’t make a right!

The aggressive mums. Teeth kissing during the nativity as they thought I’d looked at one of their group funny. Never noticed her in my life until that day. Also invited a child to a party in my youngest class and got a “yeah what do you want me to say” message back. I almost feel relief if someone wants to tell me how amazing their child is at phonics.

Those who think that traffic restrictions don't apply to them.

Those that drive like maniacs.

I got a camera and have been the cause of two NIPs complete with fines and points on their licences, so far 😎

Ours is like this and it's hilarious! To be fair, PE days have changed several times over the course of the year, so by this point we're all just hopelessly lost!

We've one mum who never knows when school is open or closed, whether it's PE or non-uniform or "wear a weird hat to school day" or anything and she's just constantly asking. She's really nice, though, and the first to offer to lend a hand if someone's not well, or to give lifts or host end of term parties, so it's totally worth having her there!

I think we're fortunate in that both our DCs are in classes with fairly sensible parents. There's no real competition; if a child wins something and gets in the newsletter, generally people will pile into the WhatsApp group to congratulate them.

We have the lost mum.

She asked what time school finished this week, four mums replied now, x is waiting, she rushed down and then realised that was a wee joke. Everyone laughed, her the most.

The one who always interrupts when you're having a conversation with someone, because she wants to social climb. Sometimes she'll physically drags people away but only if they're a lawyer or a doctor. Also the one who can't attend a school meeting without saying something, even if their point is meaningless twoddle. She just must hear the sound of her own voice and slow the whole thing down. Then there's those that suck the joy out of the school fete by measuring sales figures and telling volunteers they're doing it all wrong. I've been there too long.

Thankfully no WhatsApp group here

The usual competitive parents though

SM doesn't help

I'm as working class as they come

We moved to a lentil weaving,middle class area (anyone from york will know it) and I enrolled the kids into the school

Within a week,one had an invite to a party-all good

Child went-but came home in tears

The party girls mum had told him that his present to her kid wasn't good enough and he wasn't welcome-and that she wanted my number (which he didn't have,so she shouted at him) so she could ring me and pick him up

She was very snotty with me when I did pick him up

I left it-we'd been at the school for less than a week and just figured ds had got it wrong

He hadn't

She was part of the pta,thought she was queen bee and so far up the heads arse,she could have cleaned the heads teeth

She made sure that none of mine got any part in school plays,never won any awards,never got a part in the school concert, last to meet santa etc

Her brat often repeated what she'd heard from her mother within earshot-low level bullying that she never got pulled up on because of who her mother was

So,in short,the middle class mother who thought we where shit on her shoe

Didn't stop me from being super friendly and polite to her and her mates which confused the hell out of her

Silly cow-once they'd left,I never had to see her or that shitty Radley handbag she carried like it was the crown jewels,ever again

We had a mum who at every parents evening would bring a huge bouquet for the teacher. Very strange.

Thankfully no whatsapp for my DDs school. I don't think I'd be in it if there was.

But there is a super competitive one- her dc are the best at everything, most popular, cleverest, their reports are better than everyone else's and she has to put other dc down at every chance. It's exhausting talking to her, but I do giggle when she posts photos of the reports that are definitely low end of average (and the dc are the rudest, meanest kids I've ever met).

I try to arrive ad the class comes out and leave immediately after a couple of years of trying to be sociable. Not ashamed to say I've faked the odd phone call to avoid braggy mum.

The cliques too! The MLM squad, the stay at home yummy mummy's who just can't imagine abandoning their dc like working mums, the power suited one's on the phone because their jobs are just too important, even the grandparents have a clique. I am snubbed by all of them (actually, maybe there is a whatsapp group and I'm just not invited 😬).

The ones sending concerned messages because little Billy said there was no toilet paper or whatever. I mean, I agree that's not acceptable, but surely its just a quick word with the school?

My favourite though was the parent who jumped in at the end of the end-of-year collection process with some ideas on how to do it better (obviously, without any intention of doing it herself). Class rep shut her right down. Was truly brilliant!!!

The ones who park all over the bloody pavement leaving 3 foot for parents, kids and prams to squeeze through.
Numerous letters home from the head make no difference 😠