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?

'Hi mums' 😅

We have this too. I made a separate group for 7 or 8 of the boys' parents because they all play football at the same club so we arranged ride shares, equipment shifting etc. I mentioned it in conversation with one of the girls' mums (because why wouldn't I, it's hardly a state secret). She then spent about three years bitching on the class group every time a question came up - "I don't know, maybe the boys' splinter group have discussed it privately" type comments. I so wanted to reply, "Er, no, but we have arranged who is taking who to the match on Sunday if you want the details?" 😁

My son starts school next year and really hope there isn't such a thing...however I am part of an NCT Mums group (now archived) - mainly because there was one mum who absolutely insisted on using voice notes for EVERYTHING. She got stroppy one day and asked why a couple of us weren't responding.

Never occurred to her that that since a "couple of us" are deaf/hard of hearing, we can't hear that babble anyway.

Our football coach tries to do this... but then everyone just posts an actual message with a thumbs up or thumbs down. <face palm>

50 unread messages about parents evening bookings yesterday 😬

I have been fantasising about posting and telling them all that life is a simulation and none of it matters 😂

Anything with "gentle reminder"

My youngest attends a special school so we only really see other parents once or twice a year. The mums who do meet up kept posting photos of their brunches and night out meetups. Glasses raised towards the camera. I left the chat.

Also badmouthing the teachers. I really hated it.

School sends a message on Facebook, email and Dojo: “On Friday staff are holding a charity cake sale. Please donate cakes – homemade or bought. You and your children are invited to the sale after school on Friday, in the school hall.”

Mum 1: So now I’ve got to make cakes! 🙈 What is this sale for, can kids go?

Mum 2: It’s for charity hun. Not sure when it’s happening though.

Mum 3: On Friday, before school.

Mum 4: I thought it was after school in the playground, does anyone know if it’s ok to donate bought cakes?

Mum 5: what’s this about cakes? Is it a cake and wine evening? I love wine! 😋

Mum 6: Think it’s just for charity, guys, not for the kids to buy cakes.

On and on and on till someone screenshots the original message into the chat and they all go “ohhhh”, while I wonder how they heard about the cake sale if not from the fucking message that answered all their stupid questions in the first place.

This is why you don’t join parents WhatsApp school groups - waste of your time. If there is anything important, school will notify you.

No, it’s why you join and mute them, so there’s something good to scroll when Mumsnet runs out of froth or the neighbourhood group chat hasn’t had a good passagg exchange in a while.

@spitefulandbadgrammar 😂😂😂

I have this person in one of my groups. It’s got to the point where other people are asking each other what is going on with her - she doesn’t appear to have access to email or the parents’ login section of the school website.

Can I say, though, that the person more annoying than her is the one who refuses to join the WhatsApp group (because she doesn’t like WhatsApp - fair enough) but then asks someone who is on the group to let her know if there is anything important. This gets suggested on here quite often and it’s really irritating for the designated “helper”.

Mute the chat. Obviously it doesn’t mute every chat on WhatsApp.

Mute the chat and go back to 35 messages about missing kit

Yeah, which you can just ignore. You didn’t know you could mute individual chats, so now you know how to eliminate the annoying notifications, and scroll past the drivel. 🙂

When DD was in primary her class WhatsApp was fine, there was always a message on a Saturday morning asking about the homework as at least one child had "lost" it.
I and some others were added to the WhatsApp group for the other class in her year as some parents seemed to think their class had all the info. My God, it was like a different world. Moaning, constant questions, hun this, hun that, completely irrelevant stuff. It was funny at first then it got annoying.

The only thing that really annoys me in ours is when people say “let me know if any dietary requirements” in relation to parties and then 25 responses saying “no dietary requirements for xx” - they said if there are you dickheads. Every single time.

When our DCs went to secondary school I, point blank, refused to join any WhatsApp group and very rarely read any emails from the school. Miraculously no one died, and our DCs still got all their exams and got into their preferred university.

Schools and parents successfully worked together before WhatsApp. You don’t need it now - if there is something important you need to know, the school will let you know

I swear people are getting weirder.
No one wants to talk to other adults during school drop offs/pick ups, no one wants to "talk" to other parents on things like Whatsapp yet there's another thread on here of somebody complaining that the sales assistant in the supermarket didn't acknowledge them or speak to them.
What do people want...... communication between your fellow humans or no communication......
It's so confusing 🤣

I'm out of the class groups now but we had a variety of themes:

1. The wannabe reps, who felt is was their constant job to police the group. They all had different 'rules' though. If you sent a message at 7.05pm one of them would reply "no posting after 7pm". These rules were never written or agreed upon.

1. Stealth boaster, who would share photos of what they were up to at the weekend or on holidays. "Oh just another lazy weekend on the yacht/at Mandarin class/hiking up Ben Nevis". Also lots of faux "do you think this meets the standard?" photos of projects for STEM week that were so obviously completed by the parents.

1. The school hater: someone posts asking a question about a school library book, their response will be "library, wtf is that? 🤣🤣🤣" or to a homework related question "thier [sic] in school long enuff, wtf should I be doing the teachers job at home?"

1. The woke parent: makes absolutely everything into cultural appropriation. You can't have a hair bow, pencil or patent shoes incase it offends the pupils from X tribe in the Amazon (0 pupils).

1. The social media mum:" just a warning that in the night a man with a dark coat walked up our street (street name not included). I think he might be Romanian. Just wanted to let you all know incase it happens to yous xxx" This one is particularly annoying as quite a few mums are of the same ilk and will reply "oh no hun, hope ur all safe xxx" and there will be a 50 message exchange about the dangers of foreigners/criminals/mentally ill people before the wannabe admin mum steps in. This type of mum also adds very intimate details of their lives "just to let you all know". Pending court dates, break ups with partners, DV incidences, what they think of their ex(es).

1. The time rich mum: "So what's everyone wearing on the school pick up today?" (Emm, the same thing I was wearing this morning?) Or "was thinking of buying these boots [photo attached] what do you all think?"

1. The picking a fight mum: "did anyone have any issues with Mrs Bell before? My Jonny came home today and said she was looking at him funny. Not sure whether to confront her now or leave it for a day to get more evidence". There will be a reply of "don't let her get away with it hun, the kids have rights and some fkn teachers forget that!". Or a mum has been told not to bring her (growly) dog into the school playground. "It's all right for the teachers, they have money to get dog sitters but what about rest of us? My pit bull wouldn't hurt a fly!"

1. The "aww bless x" mum, who simply writes that in reply to anything the kids have been up to.

My dc have been in 3 primary schools, so I've seen it all. Can't believe some parents have groups in secondary school.

See I don't mind the secondary group chats @feralunderclass The ones I'm in are to the point with no chit chat. People occasionally ask when the end of term is, or what day non uniform day is, that's about it.

But my goodness, the chat for my primary aged child is madness. I think it's partly because most of the parents on it don't have older kids so it's all new to them. Their kids are their PFBs.

I had a neighbour like this. His ds is 3 weeks younger than my dd. He was very, very competitive when they were little (we don't talk anymore so no idea if he still is). He'd tell me that his ds was reading xyz or doing 200 piece jigsaws etc. It was reasonablly advanced for his age but not excessively so. I used to make complimentary sounds but got fed up of him asking whether dd could do the same and then launching into a spiel about how wonderfully advanced his ds was.

I decided on a different approach. Every time he came out with x, I would respond by saying that's wonderful. Dd is doing x++ so 500 piece jigsaw to his 200, read lord of the rings to his Harry Potter) and isn't it amazing how clever they both are. He stopped.

I was annoyed on Fri as I message the work group chat to say thank you to everyone for my leaving gift and how I'm gonna miss everyone, some people replied, then one lady said "has anyone seen my glasses?" 🤣

One Mum used to really get my goat by posting stuff about her son on the parents whatsapp. You're probably wondering why that is annoying....well it was on her daughter's parents whatsapp group and he wasn't even at the same school!!

So annoying but everyone v British and no-one told her not to do it including me - I just quietly raged every time I saw a post about her son.