to find this one girl's mother writing in to the school newsletter nearly EVERY week OTT?

[londoner01]

DD's school newsletter was emailed home this afternoon. Every week there is an 'individual achievement' section. To be in it you or your parent has to write to the Head telling her about an exceptional achievement. Sounds a good idea.
Most of the achievements range in how big they are but are valid and you tend to never see the same pupil twice in a year. They are things like getting on the country netball team, being invited to meet a famous MP, winning a local tennis club's championships, raising a big amount for charity etc.

Without exaggeration nearly every single week the mother of a girl in my DD's class writes in about her achievements in the local swimming club's 'club championships'. She has won a swimming club medal almost every weekend because the championships run for 10 weekends in nov-jan. The mother writes a full blown report of her race, photographs and the medal ceremony EVERY time.

This is not a primary school, our DDs are 13 and in Year 9.

My DD also attends the swimming club and also has beaten the girl won a few medals. Its great for DD, I'm proud of her, but IMO the whole school doesn't need to know week-by-week progress and achievements. I'm equally proud of my other DD who never gets a medal but loves the experience and tries hard. I guess my emphasis isn't on winning. (DD would also be mortified if I wrote in)

AIBU to find this mother's bragging and unneccesary reporting of her daughter's achievements a bit ridiculous?

I'd have thought the Head (or whoever edits the newsletter) would have more sense than to keep printing her stuff to be honest

Just don't read it.

(bet that poor kid is being picked on for it)

Yanbu, but I'd rather a massive boast than a stealth one.

I wonder if the girl has confidence issues or maybe the mum didn't get any praise as a child? Just speculating though.

I would like to think I might write in once or twice, but in reality, probably couldn't be arsed

Do the letters actually get printed though? From reading the OP I'm not clear whether your gripe is that the other student is getting a mention each week or just that the mum writes in.

Fortunately nearly halfway through January so not much more to go, OP. Yanbu but maybe the girl's mother has a crap life and lives through her daughter, who knows.

YABU. Nothing is stopping you from writing anything on there. I think you're being quite bitchy actually.

Honestly, she might be the only parent submitting content, so the editor of the newsletter is probably only too happy to put her stuff in to fill the page. When I worked on a local paper the letters page was always a massive pain in the arse because the same crazies would write in every week, and unless we could force a trainee reporter to write some made up letters, we had to print them to fill up column inches. Try submitting some stuff yourself!

Yanbu but a don't see what you can do about it to be honest. When I was at secondary school I did a lot of dancing outside of school and remember being included in the newsletter at the end of term- if I'm honest my overwhelming feeling at the time was embarrassment that my mum had mentioned it to my head of year I can't imagine the DDs thrilled about it, more than likely its the mother driving it an the dd putting up with it and thinking her mum is so embarrassing, I really wouldn't waste time and energy on it.

Maybe she doesn't do very well at school subjects and her mum thought she would like to see some encouraging stuff about herself.

As a teacher who receives these kind of emails for our own school newsletter you cant really say 'sorry love, not putting it in this week'. I completely understand your point, but the school asks for celebrations of achievements so really has to put them in. It is a bit much though.