Theee most annoying thing about parent’s whatsapp group?

[KeepNameChanging81]

Laura: Georgie has lost her PE Top please could you check their bags when they get home?

Cue….29 mum’s saying:

sorry ‘Henry hasn’t got it hope you find it’

’not with Emily, really hope it’s found’

’Hi Laura; must catch up on that coffee with you me and Emma and sorry it’s not with Tom hope you find it soon’

’ha ha ha not again didn't Georgie do that last week, sorry not with us’

’Hi sorry Jane is at dance and she’s back at 7 so ill
check her bag then’

WHY?!! If you haven’t got it don’t say you haven’t got it!!! FFS! Just if you’ve got it let the parent know so my phone isn’t pinging every two mins.

What’s the most annoying parent whatsapp on your parent group?

Xmas gifts for teachers and someone using the as a cue to advertise their MLM. Or even better, one year, two Mums both upset because neither of their MLMs would be used.

Surely it's polite to acknowledge you've looked, not just ignored it.

The Woman whowaits for school to send a letter then asks everyone else what it says. Click on the attachment Woman!

Same Woman repeatedly asks what day PE is, what uniform requirements are for a particular day and doesn't seem capable of knowing when term starts and ends.

Twenty messages asking when PE day is, then twenty more saying Brian says it's PE he's warring his shorts! Betty is wearing her kit!

And the fact that at least 7 people screenshot the official school messages we all get onto there.

It is handy though

No it’s polite to let them know if you’ve got it. 29 other mums don’t need to know you’ve looked and don’t have it.

Everyone asking if you’ve seen the same message you all got.

Can anyone tell me the dates for half term? 🤬 look on the website like everyone else!!!

People posting tat that they're trying to sell. "Does anyone want to buy this jigsaw that's missing 5 pieces ?"

Mute the chat ? Turn off notifications?

attaches picture of model castle worthy of being in a museum
'I just wanted to check if everyone thought this will be OK, DD has only had a couple of hours to work on this over the weekend and I don't want her to feel bad when she brings it in.'

No you didn't Sarah, you have clearly spent the whole of the last half term working on this yourself, your DD hasn't been allowed anywhere near it and you want the chance to show it off in case we miss seeing it at drop off tomorrow. Those of us whose child has reluctantly coloured in a badly sellotaped cereal packet feel suitably shamed.

I can’t I use whatsapp for my business!

What annoys me is when the parent’s creations win!!

@KeepNameChanging81 you can just mute that group. Doesn't stop you from using WhatsApp for everything else.

You can mute that chat though. Unless your business is the school mums !?

I'll reply to someone's question, be completely ignored and then when someone else replies, that parent is thanked profusely. I hardly write on the class whatsapp anymore, I just stay on it in case there's anything I might have missed, own clothes day, trips etc.

Mute chat. Archive group.

Jobs jobbed.

The selling random tat that they’ve had on local selling groups for weeks but want us to think we’re getting a special early bird special!

The one who can’t ever, ever read any email from the school, asks when it’s pe, when it’s half term, what clothes they need to be wearing that day etc. and then says it’s because they’re so busy with work. Well wtf do the rest of us do?! We’ve had the half term one this evening already, then some little lap dog went on the school website and screenshots and posts it.

I wonder how I managed to raise my 3 older children without these groups 🙄I’m sure they just make people even more lazy!

The incessant moaning about:

• how can they possibly have Sports Day in this heat? They'll literally die.
• why are they starting school on a Friday, what's the point?
• why are they starting school on a Monday? It's such a long week when they're not used to it
• how can they be expected to eat a decent dinner when the pizza has run out?

Etc etc etc

The one who never knows when or where anything is, despite receiving all the same emails as everyone else. We’re not your fucking PAs. We have 24 hours in our day just like you do.

Surely it's a way of knowing who has checked. If 27 replies are "no we haven't got it" it makes it easier to ask the 2 people who didn't reply than to keep asking all 29 again.
Jeez... it's just a conversation.

All the examples in this thread are why I have the group chat muted 😂

Youngest child and I just can't deal with the entitlement of some of them!

This this this this this... no it is not polite to tell them you checked. It is annoying. They can assume everyone checked and they cannot do anything anyways if you don't check. So useless saying you checked (or you will check later when suzie is back from dance). Just post if you found it!

Last year of this nonsense. Cannot wait to delete it FOREVER!!!!!

The worst was during lockdown when we were homeschooling. So much passive aggressive one-upmanship.

People who can't be bothered to read any communication the school send out and use the group as a personal assistant to ask inane questions.