Teacher's thank you card is a holiday brag-a-thon!

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DC's class is doing an online card (kudoboard) so the parents kids can post a pic alongside a gushing thank you to the teacher about how wonderful the year has been, and the teacher can then scroll through them all.

It seems the parents are very unsubtly using it as a opportunity to brag about their holidays! Half of the pics show a kid in an amazing location. We've got snowy mountains on a ski trip, some kind of quad bike dune expedition, a beach in a tropical paradise, on an enormous boat in a beautiful blue sea, at famous European landmarks, horseriding in a lush green landscape, and even trekking up what looks like Inca pyramids!!

I'm almost embarrassed to upload the photo we did of DC in their bedroom!

Christ - does no one think of the poor teacher 🙈🤣🤣

Private school? Both the fact that they're already on hols abroad and the timing of it.

State schools only broke up Friday just gone right?

Or maybe they take photos when on holiday and forget the rest of the time?!
I'm definitely guilty of the above and therefore most pictures I have of DC (and myself) is when doing something like holiday or a treat day out!

I'm on a WhatsApp for a club dd attends.

I hate the summer holidays for this exact reason.

It starts off with "Toby won't be there this week, he's in disnyland Paris with his auntie" then "Eva won't be in for 2 weeks, we gave Paris a skip this year and went right for Disneyworld" then "Eric won't be in for 3 weeks, we decided not to do the touristy stuff and are off on a retreat with Buddhist Monks, far more educational" and on and on it goes for the whole summer.

They start posting photos too which is annoying. Post them to your mates, not a WhatsApp chat which is for club news ffs.

Photoshop your kid in front of Sydney harbour bridge.

Scotland has been on holiday for a couple of weeks, Leicestershire has been on holiday for a week.

But, even so, assuming that not all the holiday snaps are current given its unlikely anyone will be skiing in July. (Obvs a few may be glacier skiing and I realise the southern hemisphere exists)

Confusing a class whatsapp for facebook is peak cringe.

Use Chat GPT to create a picture standing in front of an airport called 'Elevenerief'. Or meeting the King outside the palace.

I had a friend who loved to get the class 'teddy' for the weekend when his kids were at primary school. He gleefully photoshopped teddy into (fake) pictures of what was supposedly 'our new Jaguar - just picked it up today' and 'Ted having a fabulous time in Paris - just nipped over for the night', 'Ted eating in Gordon Ramsay's Chelsea restaurant - gorgeous food, fabulous night'.

He came up with more and more ridiculous things that they'd supposedly done. It was to take the piss out of the competitive parenting that appeared to go on when you had to fill in 'Teddy's diary' for the weekend, when you don't want to admit that you've never got out of your stained joggers and that you've simply slumped in front of the tv.

Can you do similar?

oh this is so funny

do you reckon it started out everyone had a photo in the bedroom/by a front door

then one posts skiing and one thinks “I’m not having that so unseasonal here take dune buggies”
then “dune buggies how uneducational I present the Inca trail”

or

all of them thought independently “now’s my chance in case anyone has missed our private yacht holiday/tropical island snaps on the gram”

hopefully it gets so ridiculous the school decides to stop it next year
“thanks from inside the eye of a hurricane you really brought Johnny’s passion of tropical storms to life this year”

Oh God i love the idea of photo shopping a pic for this ! 😀

Def do one sitting happily on a sofa next to Prince George at Windsor Castle or something -

'Loved being in your class Miss X, will miss you - and Hi from my mate too!'

🤣

get AI to do a picture of him working in a soup kitchen or something. ‘Xx is trying to keep our carbon footprint as low as possible and really wanted to spend the summer helping others.’.

No one can be seen to be shitting out can they. Total oneupmanship of the Instagram age.

😁

Can you photoshop a pic of your DC atop the Empire State Building, in the style of King Kong?

Whatever happened to a simple bought thank you card for good teachers?

What a drama fest. 🤷‍♀️

Please do this😀.

Lol I wish I’d had kids now to do just this 😂. And in the WhatsApp groups, ‘little Tarquin will be unavailable for any play dates for the next 2 weeks as we’re all heading for a well earned break to Balmoral’ 😅

I'd go the other way and take a picture outside the local aldi or B&M. (It's actually a regular outing for mine in the school holidays so not even lying!)

Your dc could be an astronaut on a trip to space.

Just say this is your kid. It's just a shame you can't see their face under the helmet.

Or on the moon 😂

Oops cross post with @Mansionscoldandgrey 🤣

Great minds think alike 😉

Where is ski-ing season now? That has to be a photoshop