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.

Most of the parents are lovely at our school. Bar the woman who told us we couldn't send our DC into covid school because it was too dangerous/spaces limited/spreading the disease.... Who then later stated that both her DC were attending covid school because they couldn't possibly do their work AT HOME (Both parents, at home!) and concentrate if the DC were there!!!!!!!!!

Both me, H and my friend (single parent) were all working in front line keyworker roles that required us to be on site, incredibly traumatic time etc. My job changed in the middle of the pandemic and I worked from home so the DC were then at home with me so I didn't use up valuable spaces for people that needed them!
Left the WhatsApp group after that and never went back!

Then there was the other parent who accosted me in the middle of our older DCs event (different school) to inform me my younger DS had been beating girls up in his class.
Obviously I was absolutely mortified and rang school straight away.. To find out that nothing of the sort had happened, he had never been violent to anyone and they didn't know what on earth she was talking about.
This was the same mum that also told her kid not to go near another child because they had headlice. Kid proceeded to go in and tell the whole class, the poor child (whose headlice had been treated!) spent the entire day being picked on and ignored by other children who wouldn't play with her 😢

Reminds of me of DS's first Christmas at school. There was a bauble decorating competition and I was helping put all the baubles the kids had decorated on a tree for display. One little girl came up to me and proudly said 'My bauble is on that tree!'. So I asked which one was hers. Turns out she didn't know because 'Mummy didn't show it to me before she wrapped it up'. I laughed right up to the point she won the prize for the best bauble...

Some of these have reminded me of the snobby infants school my DCs went to.
There was a very definite split between posh and not posh mums. I used to prefer the not posh mums as they had a laugh and were easy going.

Anyway, the PTA was invite only, and, as I was considered "not posh" as I stood with them I wasn't extended an invitation (insert fist bump here).

So, the snobbery was ridiculous.

One of the not posh mums had a blog. It was known about, she was a great writer and a funny person. She wrote about what it's really like to be a mum with DCs, none of the white couches and fancy stuff.
She wrote a post about the behaviour of the posh mums at the school. No names mentioned, but she referred to the PTA as Poshos Twatting About society.

It did not go down well.

She was told to write an apology on the blog-she said no. And if it was obvious who was who, it was their fault. Their behaviour was rude, obnoxious, and snobby and having an invite only PTA was off and also excluded the minority group parents too so they were bloody racist and snobs.

She got death stares the rest of the year before they all moved onto primary. I thought she was spot on.

This post has has made me chuckle on and off all day whenever I think of it. His poor daughter, must be so embarrassing for her 😂

As a teacher I found the unpleasant parents who sneered at the mums always willing to help out were obnoxious.

Totally agree. I no longer have anything to do with the PTA - too many bad experiences and I've done my bit - but I am unfailingly friendly and grateful to those who do. I hate it when "PTA mums" are sneered at and I don't even like our PTA.

Blimey, I would take some of these lawyer-loving Queen bee types to be honest. The best I get is a mouthful of abuse from a skinny dad stinking of fags because he thinks I brushed against the shit car he parked on the yellow zig zags with the double pram he all but hit when swinging onto the kerb.

That was this afternoon.

Ooh, I know this guy. Same guy who used the class WhatsApp group to have a meltdown at one of the other parents' child after BOTH children were in trouble for "poor choices"?

weve got one of them that’s a serving police officer!

I dunno, but I expect he is a quivering wreck of a little man after the way some of the more er 'vocal' mums responded to his mouthing off.

Twat.

The group I’m in is generally ok, we’re all fairly laid back. There is a local mum though, she lives closer than me (It’s a 7 minute walk from my house with a slow 3 year old and an average 6 year old) and she drives and parks on the zig zags everyday to be close to school. I vaguely know her and she doesn’t work but apparently wants to get to the gym on time. A lot of people complained about the zig zag parkers and we get a traffic warden 2/3 times a week now!

Sadly, a lot of the comments on this thread resonate. I didn't realise these experiences were so archetypal.

I've met some of the most batshit people at the school gates so I no longer bother being sociable. One mum, in particular, winds me up. She is the most bombastic, obnoxious, social climbing 'on the make' person I have ever met. What is actually baffling is the amount of gaggling sycophants who blow smoke up her arse, 24/7.

The worst thing about all this is I don't have a wingman/Liz from Motherland type to share all this glorious material with.

The ones (it’s always the same ones) who park on the zig zags with their hazards on.

The ones who never, ever help with PTA things but swan around loudly saying things like, “oh I thought the school fete would be much better than this”.

The ones who are nice to your face but obviously talk shit about you to their kids because it comes back via your kids, E.g. “Benjamin’s dad says your car’s too big and you can’t park it anyway.”

The ones whose children are rough, disruptive little shits and just explain away their behaviour and never take any accountability or make any changes with them.

These 100 percent! And they freak out of their little ones don't get picked for everything after all their "busyness"...

Year 6 mum who thinks everyone has disposable income for end of year stuff and shuts you down saying ‘all you do is save each month’. Now another mum has piped up shocked at how little she has and is worrying about bills, end of year stuff, new school uniform.

There is a mum who arrives to school early and then stays in her car with the engine running for half an hour at least.

Parents who drive their kids to school even though they live less than 10 minutes away
Parents who leave their engines running
Parents who stand chatting to class / headteacher every fucking morning and afternoon
Parents who are cliquey
Queen Bee mums
DIY dads
Parents who have exercise as their only topic of conversation

Parents who drive their kids to school even though they live less than 10 minutes away

I do this but only because I have to go straight to work afterwards!

Ones who cannot queue

Parents who park across my drive when I'm not in, therefore I come home at 3:15 and can't access my own drive.

Parents that park across my drive when my car is there then spend 20 mins talking at the gate at pick up time, making my own daughter late for gymnastics as we have to leave within 5 minutes.

Parents that park on the zig zags

Parents that leave their engine running when not in the car.

Haha
I luffs acomb-i used to live in dringhouses
I'm amazed you recognised the area from my crap description!
Southbank is a nice enough area-just bloody snobby

The ones who say they'll help at PTA events, and then decide when they get there that they don't actually want to, or just don't bother turning up.

The ones who sneer about what the PTA do and complain about things but have no idea about the work that goes into it.

We've got one on our Whatsapp group who since Sept has complained about:

The settling in schedule
The weekly homework (weekly)
The holiday homework (holidayly)
The school motto (every other fucking week)
The caterers
The after school clubs/ECs
The school's approach to WBD
Fundraising for Ukraine
Topics covered in class

We're in central-ish London and there are four other schools within a mile, and her little one has an older sibling in the school, so I presume she chose this one...

I think it was a pamper set from boots-cost enough (think hot chocolate,a mug,hair towel thingy,lip balm,marshmallows etc)

(The kids where about 9 at the time and nothing in it was offensive-I would have let my lot at that age use it)

Snotty bitch-she went round the school,slagging my ds off,over something he had no control over and it ramped up a lot when she saw me coming out of the local charity shop a few days later

Snotty cow-i hope some fucker makes her feel like she made my son feel that day

He was so upset and her brat just made things worse by repeating things that I just know had come from her mother-like calling him by his surname rather than his name complete with snide-under-the-breath-coments that I heard more than once

The teachers refused to believe it as 'grace wouldn't say anything like that!she's such a sweet girl'

Sweet my arse

@Charlottewebsbabies
I am raging for you and your DS. What an absolute cowbag to do that to a young boy,hopefully what goes around, comes around.