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to grass up my neighbour

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soggybottomflancase · 27/05/2011 10:39

Her kids go to the same school as mine. It's the last day before the holidays and she has kept her dcs off school. She always does it actually, every holiday, her kids get an extra day off!
And all they are doing is tidying up.
I'm a bit hormonal but I really want to email the headmaster to invite him to mine for a brew then he can listen to them through the wall.

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mymummyisasquarehead · 27/05/2011 10:53

How you are at home can be quite different to how you are when you're out and about; I know I am.

Have you nothing better to do with your time?! None of your business.

taylor74 · 27/05/2011 10:54

But no I wouldnt do it with my DD

fifi25 · 27/05/2011 10:55

or have been chucking up all night
or have chickenpox

no actually i think you should invite the headmaster round (like he would come) and hopefully you might show yourself up to be nosey and interfearing

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soggybottomflancase · 27/05/2011 10:59

There isn't anything wrong with them, and they aren't going away. Not this time but a time before I heard her say "you're not going to school if you're naughty" to one of them. And seriously I don't have to strain to hear what she says, she is really loud.

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fifi25 · 27/05/2011 11:01

Bloody hell im pleased your not my neighbour. Your obviously friendly with her if you know the kids are not ill or going away. You sound a bit 2 faced to me TBH

LiliesandVeuve · 27/05/2011 11:03

oh fgs, mind your own business
why are you so interested.
They don't do anything on the last day of term, maybe she just wants to spend extra time with them
why are you being mean?

taylor74 · 27/05/2011 11:06

Ok OP what you hoping to achieve by telling on her?

razzlebathbone · 27/05/2011 11:13

Blimey, I'm glad you don't live next door to me.

bittersweetvictory · 27/05/2011 11:13

YABVVVVVU, its none of your business, no one likes a grass and this is just pure grassyness, diffrent if they were being abused or beaten but grassing for the sake of it is a big no no and will probably blow up in your face, leave well alone.

LittleJennyRobyn · 27/05/2011 11:15

Are You Serious?

Do you Honestly think the head has time to come and have a cup of tea with you????

I have been known to keep DC's off on the last day of term, Only at Christmas though....but whatever her reasoning for doing this is precisely none of your buisness. Why should it matter to you that they are tidying up(isn't it good that the kids are helping out) and why on earth would you want to report her???

If you dont like her kids getting an extra day off then keep yours off too, then they wont feel left out.

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soggybottomflancase · 27/05/2011 11:17

As I said before I won't tell on her but IF I was going to I would hope to acheive the following:
That she and her children learn the importance and value of education and that she can't make up her own rules.
I'm not friendly with her at all, merely civil because I love the inside of my home and don't want to fall out with her.
I'm not nosey, she inflicts herself upon us.
She is a horrible two-faced person, and I could go on about that for a long time.
Her whole family are very intimidating.
I'm really surprised by the responses, I have no objection to parents keeping their kids off school if it means that their lives are enriched in someway but to keep them off then shout at them all day is beyond me!

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ShirleyKnot · 27/05/2011 11:21

I think many, many things are probably beyond you OP.

also, at SGB

bittersweetvictory · 27/05/2011 11:23

you cant justify this, what business is it of yours whether her kids know the value of education, who are you to say she cant make up her own rules, if the school were worried then they would act, im not freindly with my neighbour either and her kids are always off school but i would never even dream of reporting her for something like this, im surprised that you are surprised by the responses, this has nothing to do with you, get over yourself you nasty snob.

MrSpoc · 27/05/2011 11:26

soggybottomflancase - The importance of education? If i remember correctly arnt the last days of school just full of fun, videos, bring your toys to schools days? What important education stuff will they be missing out on? Banter!!

And your Nieghbour inflicting herself upon you, does that mean you live in a flimsy, thin walled house and you cannot help but here the neighbours? I bet they can even here you when you fart.

JBellingham · 27/05/2011 11:27

I hope your neighbour complains to the police to stop you watching her every move.

Maybe her kids are cleverer than yours and therefore she decides they do not need the last day of term education, especially as its usually a short day with not much done.

bittersweetvictory · 27/05/2011 11:34

And why would you want to cause trouble if the whole family are intimidating, better hope they are not on this thread on their comp and suss out its you,

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soggybottomflancase · 27/05/2011 11:37

If my kids were in the same classes as hers I would hope that the teachers were good enough to not let my dcs education suffer because other members of the class were absent so much.

The odd day here and there might not affect the child but (and this is just one year), they went away on holiday for two weeks in September so that was 10 days then they have had five extra days for all the holidays and they are late to school everyday, since they go out as I'm coming in from dropping mine off. Plus the person who drives the two dcs to school already has her three in her hatchback!
I'm not obsessed, honest!

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SoupDragon · 27/05/2011 11:40

do you really think the school hasn't noticed?

SoupDragon · 27/05/2011 11:42

You're not obsessed but you know exactly how many days they have had off, whether they are late for school or not and other minutiae of their lives...?

MrSpoc · 27/05/2011 11:43

This is a wind up thread. Come on its Friday. Whaaaaa.

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soggybottomflancase · 27/05/2011 11:45

I actually thought that all the replies were wind ups!

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fifi25 · 27/05/2011 11:47

Soggy - their her kids and thats her decision to make - NOT YOURS

If you dont like her, dont speak to her, theres nothing worse than people who pretend to be nice then grass you up behind your back, because i bet thats what you do.

An old friend of the kids dads family came up to my youngest 2 the other day, squeezed her cheeks and went in a very loud voice..Your fffuuucccckkkiiinnnnggg Georgeous You in front of everyone. Thats her way, who am i to tell her if she can swear. Some people do. I do occassionally

Im sure if the school has ceoncerns they will act upon them. What have you got to gain by grassing her up. So yu can feel smug, thats why

LDNmummy · 27/05/2011 11:48

If its noise that's annoying you then deal with that, otherwise, what SCGB said.

LDNmummy · 27/05/2011 11:50

"If my kids were in the same classes as hers I would hope that the teachers were good enough to not let my dcs education suffer because other members of the class were absent so much. "

How on earth is their absence going to affect the other childrens education? Surely it would do the opposite as there would be less children for the teacher to have to deal with.

fifi25 · 27/05/2011 11:50

How the hell would your child education suffer becasue her kids are off.

I bet your one of the mams who is at the school gates at 8.30 slagging the stragglers and everyone else off because you and your kids are superior to everyone else.

Im off

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