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?

Amused by pp comment as the most annoying thing on in mine is people saying they can’t come to a school event because “I WORK!”

We all have jobs, you aren’t special.

Not here, hun!

Or so sorry guys please clap for teensy tiny Tim at the school play cos I work and can’t make it. Our comes the world’s smallest violin, cos we all bloody have to work love I’ve booked the afternoon off or switched a shift.

The people who create unnecessary drama. "Oh Tarquin was shouted at my Miss Bingo today I'm going to have it out with her later"

Or the ones who are bored/lonely and fill the chat with inane drivel about their lives. There's always one other member of the group responding to them which encourages it.

I have heard rumours... it doesn't sound pretty! 😀😀😀

Ds school is 8 form entry... there was a suggestion on the Facebook group that the WhatsApp group is for the whole year?!

I really really really dodged a bullet there!

I’ll check again at 8pm when Torquil gets back from chess

When all the parents fall out on it and it becomes schools problem to sort out 🙄

it’s fantastic, as we are often short of things to do 🤣

The "can't make x because I work" amuses me too 😂

Is this a regional thing? I have 3 kids, one in primary, one in secondary, one post 16. I have never known of any class whatsapp groups!

What uniform do they wear?

Same as last year!!!

Or check the school website

I often say that but I am being passive aggressive 😔

Not sure if it’s regional? There are year group and class whatsapp groups.

When a child goes home and say oh btw we need to bring in - insert item - tomorrow.

Parent puts it on whatsapp to inform other parents. There is then 50 messages from other parents saying if their child did or did not have this information.

Then follow up questions asking detailed questions about said item.

So they need an eggbox. This is all they were told

What colour? (No fucking idea)

6 or 12 eggs (Nope still don't know)

I don't have an egg box (then don't bloody send one)

I disagree with this because WE'RE VEGAN (are you? are you fucking vegan? we would never know because you haven't mentioned it since asking about the butter at breakfast club THIS MORNING!)

Is this for tomorrow (YES)

What are they doing with them? (hoe the fuck should I know)

Does anyone have a spare egg box? (Probably)

I have a spare (see)

I have 5 spare in our craft box johnny loves to craft (yes Amy we've all seen his sparkly macaroni glued to a cereal box)

Aaaand we've found the culprit. No. It's standard etiquette to not respond to group messages unless to affirm something as people don't need constant notifications for mere acknowledgment

I muted them. They never stopped pinging.
There is a mum in my eldests group who copy pastes the same post every weekday morning "Hi Mums, can I check what the vegetarian option is for school dinners today, thank you in advance xox"

Its a two week rotating menu that is posted on the schools website, printed off and stuck on the noticeboard where we drop the kids off everyday, emailed to us and they send home a paper copy every half term. The media section of that chat is just full of identical screenshots of the menu that gets sent to her every day.

It also just creates ridiculously long conversations though where you have to scroll way back ti find perturbance communications. It really is standard etiquette not to respond unless you are answering necessarily. Not just to acknowledge

One of my pet peeves is people complaining to the school about the WhatsApp and then the school actually thinking they have a say. Mind blowing. The other class in dd's year group had a huge crisis and it all got completely out of hand. And whenever the email from the school comes with "class WhatsApp rules" it makes me want to send inappropriate messages. Why they think they get to police it, I don't know. Particularly at our school which is FAMOUS for its refusal to engage with parents. Hahaha.

Why be on it then?

Haven’t read through the thread so if this has already been said then apologies in advance.

Okay, so first rule is mute the chat. I learnt this when my eldest now aged 12 was in reception.

For me, the most annoying is that Mum (s) who feel so superior to the rest of us mere mortals. Not necessarily because they’re on the PTA but because well, they have to copy and paste every single email sent by school at least two seconds after it has been sent .. with the caption “ We ( as in school- yet they include themselves in this) need you to do this by x y z .. blah blah”…

Really really irritates me.

I have a mum who screenshots all the letters sent to the app and then sends them onto us. Annoys me that I see the letter in the app then she sends it on again!!

My DS is in reception and I don’t like it when some Mums on WhatsApp don’t have a picture on their profile. It would really help put a face to a name, there’s one that comments on everything, she seems to be the font of all knowledge but with no picture I can’t make out which Mum she is.

Joan has lost her jumper can you check if you have it, it doesn’t have her name in it.

We get this. She is so quick the whatsapp ping literally disrupts my reading of the letter!

@SleepingStandingUp say nothing unless you have it then DM the mum / dad and say I’ve got it.

@KeepNameChanging81 just leave the group if you hate it so much.
I doubt the other parents will care. You sound like you don't like any of them.