To find sharing school reports on social media crass...

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Exactly as the title says, really.

I just don't get it.

A school report really isn't something for parents to take photos of and splash all over Facebook, or wherever. I find it pretty cringeworthy to see all these posts where parents are after reflected glory because of something that belongs to their child.

Or the flip side where parents are going off on one about something a teacher has written in confidence to them, and putting it all over social media.

Plus - I find it very intrusive and feel that the children may not want that information shared.

Anyone else find this awful?

YANBU

Very cringey

Relative has scanned in every single page and put about 90000 facebook comments about every single page of it. She's fucking ridiculous - absolutely sodding evil to her kids at the best of times but loves a spot of FB performance mother of the year nonsense.

Oh as for Christmas and birthday present stash photos - same relative makes their kids be photographed holding every single present (they're not allowed to unbox the presents though as she'll sell half of them for money) and uploads the entire lot to facebook - her kids are blatantly completely sick to death of this and the photos just get closer and closer to them completely engaging cheese mode as time goes on.

I don't discuss my children's reports on fb. They are always very good but I have high expectations and expect them to try had so they are just getting the report they should! It is also no one else's business and I have no interest in any one else's. My children are happy and good people. That's what is important

I'm a teacher and I posted a cropped bit of DS' school report on Facebook because it was related to test scores and was particularly special.

Couldn't give a flying fuck what people think. If it's braggy, cool, I think it deserves a brag, although that wasn't my intention. The people I shared it with wanted to see it and it's on Facebook so I can post it in one place rather than multiple messages, emails and texts.

I never get these social media posts. If you don't like something, scroll past it. It really isn't rocket science. To shame someone for posting things about their children is pretty sad.

I feel a bit sad about this. I too hate the boasty FB posts but wonder why we don't celebrate academic achievement more? In the US being clever is held up as so.ethi g to aspire to. Over here we feel we have to hide it.

Shameless boast alert>>>>>>>
My DS got SATS results in the top 1% nationally. I want to run around shouting about how proud I am but I can't.

I'm all for celebrating academic achievement and have no problem telling everyone how proud I am of things my children do.

It's the photographing and posting up of an entire report that I feel is very wrong.

There's a difference between being proud and putting something very private up. Do the children have a say in whether their private business gets aired? It's really not right.

ProfessorMoody - I'm not shaming someone for posting about their child. I just feel that posting a whole report (complete with signatures) is massively inappropriate.

A whole report is a bit odd, but again perhaps it's for family and its been done like that for ease of them all being in one place.

I personally wouldn't post a full report, but when I'm writing them, I'm always conscious that they might end up on social media, so I find it hard to get worked up about.

When writing this year's reports, I took a look at what previous teachers had written about some of the "characters" in the class. They were so generic and asinine, that I didn't even recognise half of them. They certainly didn't reflect the children I know (and love!). sure as hell do this year
I'm wondering if those parents posting complimentary effusions about their little horrors are perhaps failing to read between the lines.