There's a boy in DS3's Y6 class who has fallen out with most of the other DC in the class. As far as I can tell it's just normal playground clashes but with this particular DC his mother takes it all to heart and constantly complains that her DS is being picked on. She's always getting involved and complaining to parents, teachers and the head. After 7 years of this I would guess that the boy is pretty unpopular and there probably are issues.
I'm lucky in that my DS has never been involved, he's just not on this boy's wavelength so they have little to do with each other.
These days any playground spat goes straight on to this woman's Facebook page. She still has/had friends at school from her other much younger child's class so on more than one occasion issues have been put on Facebook that the whole school community then get to hear about, generally blowing them way out of proportion. She makes comments about the 'vile bullies' in her DS's class, friends that don't know the whole story are given completely the wrong impression. (IMO)
There are 2 main groupings with the boys, there's a big football mad group and a big quirky group (unusually large in this class, ideal for my DS
) The 2 groups don't cross over much but they all get on well. This boy would like to be in the football group but he's fallen out with all bar one of them. He's not so interested in the quirky group and fell out with most of them earlier down the school.
I feel really sorry for him. He's not got great social skills, not in a quirky sort of way, just a bit aggressive, described as a tell tale etc. I can't help feeling that a lot of his issues are down to the way every little problem is dealt with by his parents. Now he's 11 his personality seems pretty set.
Anyway, should parents keep playground issues off their own Facebook?