At the end of the summer term, my youngest is moving on to senior school. And while I don't want a prom do, I thought a leaving party would be a good idea.
I sent out an email to all the mothers in the year, and got a very positive response back, so I sent out another email with a selection of dates, and 95% of parents came back to me and said can't do x date, but can do others, and these were all sent as group emails that all could see.
I then got an email from an alpha mother who said 'me and x (her partner in crime) have organised a leaving prom, we've booked it all, we were just going to email everyone nearer the time to let them know when it was, but now we are going to have to spoil it and tell them about it now that you've sent out an email'.
Then a group email went out from this mum, saying there is a party at school on x date, we want all children to be there.
Well x date is the one where majority of parents can't make it.
So the leaving party/prom party doesn't have most of the year group going, and now it has more siblings attending than the leaving year.
AIBU and petty to do a low key, non prom type, get together bash, on a date that the parents said they could make, and over step this prom party?