Theee most annoying thing about parent’s whatsapp group?

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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?

The class rep who reposts every letter from the school right after the school sent it out. Yes I have the email. Now I also have a copy on WhatsApp. Fabulous.

No attempt to paraphrase or draw out the relevant dates or info. Nope they just simultaneously repost the original. Great work.

Awww ours is lovely. Very tongue in cheek. I definitely keep it muted.
I'm the annoying parent who can't do anything cos I work, can't take any time off as need all my holiday to cover school holidays. The other parents obviously don't hate me for it as they shared pics of the Christmas concert for me!

I think that’s our school. Our year group is known as being the worst .. bet the SLT will be leaping about in delight when we leave.

My goodness, they can be sooo unkind and there’s a parent on there who works at the school so the head always finds out anyway what’s been said.

@DuranNotSpandeau KPIs 😂

This irritates me too but I always assume they do it in a desperate attempt to pre-empt the "what time does school finish tomorrow" messages?

And highlight it too. In bold. And they include themselves in requesting the information. Except ours is not PTA only a PTA helper and she isn’t a class rep either .

The confetti parade my DH got for being class rep and organising things like Christmas presents. The various individual WhatsApp messages I got saying things like, “where did you find him”, “oh my husband would never do that”, “how do you get him to be so helpful?”

I smile sweetly, but want to respond, “by earning three times as much as he does. Also I was class rep for all our children at some time, including this class in reception, all while working full time and none of your DH messages my DH saying things like, “where did you find her?””

I particularly despair as my youngest is a girl and all these Mums think DH should be praised for doing something women predominantly do with out reward.

God I feel bad for these people, so much anger. Just leave the group!

Hah, this is why I've refused to join ours. I don't need that in my life!

Could not agree more with the OP - drives me up the fucking wall. Only reply if necessary should be pinned at the top of all group chats

(And yes I do have all these bloody groups muted but you do eventually have to wade through this crap in case something important was mentioned)

See also cubs/brownies and the leader asking to be told if there are allergies. Cue 15 people replying saying 'none for Harrison', 'none for James S' etc. FFS YOU ONLY NEED TO REPLY IF YOU DO HAVE AN ALLERGY

😂 made me chuckle because it sounds identical to the one I'm in and it can be a bit irritating but at the same thing it's also a polite acknowledgment. We may be the problem to be honest

This is making me dread school. The jumper thing is ridiculous. If you've named your children's clothes then surely whoever has it will spot it when they wash it and return it (unless they like stealing in which case the WhatsApp won't make a difference) they shouldn't even need to ask the group in the first place.

With the people replying 'just checked not here!' It's got to be people without 'emailing ' jobs that are doing this, that haven't learned about reply all etiquette.

@DuranNotSpandeau KPIs 😂😂

Oh god, we have overly dramatic ones in our GC. One parent said, and I quote, "my heart is breaking" because her son hadn't eaten very much lunch as he didn't like the options in the dinner hall and she was "trembling, thinking he could have been hungry during the afternoon".

Another parent in the first week accused the (very lovely) teacher of "coming between her and her son" and "destroying their bond" because in a tantrum he'd said "I wish Mrs Jones was my mummy." She was deadly serious and wondered if any other parents felt the same about the teacher and wanted to put their name to the email she was writing in.

We're in week 2...

Our cub WhatsApp is brilliant, they have set it so only admins can post so it's info from the leaders only without any nonsense replies.

That sounds amazing p, I want to be in this group.

Ours is rather dull by comparison, mostly lost jumpers or whether clubs have been rained off. A few useless people who can’t read emails but generally the vibe is self deprecating and despairing of the jumper-losing offspring.

You can mute the school chat though. I have and there’s only 12 kids in my daughter’s class.

All these posts saying to mute the chat/leave. I think you’re missing the point of this thread. The op has said they want to moan about it.

I chose not to join the most recent parents one but then I heard all the drama and wanted to join so I could moan about it!

OMG I am laughing my head off at some of these - I've found my tribe

Our group js soo boring I'm feeling a bit left out after reading some of these stories!!! I did have a mom post her payslip into the group by accident ! As soon as I sighted it I private messaged her and she deleted it! Phew!!

I can guarantee which mum in the WhatsApp group won’t know what’s happening because they don’t read the emails the school sends out. You can set your watch by her.

Two mothers who say oh I rarely look at WhatsApp we're a family of Apple users rather than android. 🙄

You know you can mute chats.....?

I have basically all groups muted, and quickly scan though them once a day or so. You don't need your phone to alert on every message.

God I wish ours would develop splinter groups! Ours is just the same minority bunch who post all the time (everything on this thread) and are all in agreement with each other. Actually there are people who are VERY grateful the school decided to tone down a week of expensive activities and ban on af1s due to the cost of living crisis, though none of them are going to feel like piping up about it on the parent chat when you're all gloating about what a stupid reason that is are they???

@justasking111 sorry what does that mean? I have an Android, husband has Apple - we are both on the same Whatsapp group.