To wish parents wouldn't boast about their children's specific GCSE grades on social media?

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I've got no problem with messages like 'Congratulations Jake, you've worked so hard. You deserve this.'

I just hate it when exact grades are given. E.g. Congratulations Oliver on gaining 5A*, 3A and a level 8 in English'.

Just feels unnecessary and guaranteed to cause upset to others. Shouldn't we be encouraging our children to just do the best they can? Success will be different for different people.
Of course teenagers will share their grades themselves anyway.
I've got a friend whose daughter got very high results...the parents put the results all over social media. How proud they are of their 'genius, perfect daughter'. Their other daughter is a year younger...she is far less academic. Not likely to achieve anything like sister's grades. Wonder how she feels.

What do people think?

Imagine you had a friend who was in financial trouble. You might feel happy telling them that you won a fiver on the office sweepstake -you might take them to the pub and buy them a drink. Would you invite them to a celebration if you won £100,000? Or would you understand that they might have difficulty sharing your joy?

If I was having financial problems, I wouldn't have any difficulty sharing someone's joy if they won £100,000 assuming they were buying the drinks.

I can't remember any FB posts about someone's kids' results on sports day, do people really brag about that ( ). Come to think of it, DH's cousin with the A* kids, those kids are really good at footie, but you'd never know from parent's FB that they play footie at all. Academic results are very well described, though.

I kind of get what you mean. My first 2 were really academic and I posted on FB. Now dc3 has got disappointing GCSE results, all As and Bs and I do kinda feel bad for her with all the 10A* crew crowing

Sorry all as and bs but worse than expected