WIBU to get pizza delivered to DD's school for her birthday lunch?

[PizzaMom]

I apparently am known as 'that' parent and have been given the side eye the few times I've gone in since!

It was DD's 16th last month on a school day. I ordered a few pizzas to be sent to school at lunchtime so she could share them with her mates in the common room. Teachers were not going to let her have them and when they relented (by the time they got cold) made her and a few friends eat them in a separate meeting room when she had planned to share them as there was enough for about 20 people!

I don't see it as being that different from me bringing in a forgotten lunch box?

I also ordered flowers and a balloon to be delivered and school refused to let her have them until after school had finished.

I was trying to make DD's day special. I really didn't think would have been that much of an issue which ruined it a bit for DD.

WIBU?

Oh the period thing is fucked up

Prove it happened, you big freak

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"Pink Parties" have been a thing for years amongst (in the early days, mainly american) achingly right on and hip parents. Probably excrutiating for the girls concerned, but who cares about them? As with the OP's farce, it was actually all about the parents.

Cool story bro....

Is your dd called Regina?

Way ott op.

Very embarrassing. And the period thing is gross. 🤦🏻‍♀️

ANd here is the sock puppet! OK I am convinced......reported.

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This has GOT to be a teacher or ta posting about some chav mother who has done similar at their school

Christ, there are some nasty posters on here.

Absolutely cringing inside out at both mother and child who will be an absolute laughing stock - even if her friends were happy to munch the pizza.

If you wanted to throw a special "birthday lunch" for your DD then you should have hosted one yourself, in your own time. You don't just take it upon yourself to decide she can have a fucking pizza party at the school without even consulting them

If a Parent at my school tried this I would have the Reception staff turn the pizza delivery person away at the door. Allergies aside, there is no way I would allow staff to be dragged away from their lunch to traipse round the school site with a load of pizza boxes looking for one student out of 1000, not to mention the poor cleaners who would have to deal with the inevitable mess afterwards just because one of the Mum's wants to show off.

I don’t think the pizzas are odd, but then my DC went to a school where all the older kids had food delivered regularly.

Flowers and balloons are odd. What was she supposed to do with them all day?

I’m only here for the deletion message.

Feee fiii foooo fumm

I think this is one of those threads where it doesn’t matter what everyone says, the OP has decided s/he is not BU and isn’t budging from that stance.

Yep you're right zogtheorangedragon, proof of the "look at what I did' attitude....

Well for what it's worth I think you are BU but hey ho you have already decided you are not so why even ask.

Poor child having to walk around with balloons at school at 16 years of age. Maybe keep the OTT for at home.

I appreciate that most state schools don't allow stuff like this. Yes, birthdays are a special occasion but should not have any real celebration in school. I wouldn't want a culture where parents are competitively spending £ to make as big as show of possible just how special their child is (while other kids with poorer, or even less caring, parents are left to feel shitty).

I wouldn't have done it for any other birthdays. We couldn't afford a proper sweet 16 (bloody reality TV) so she had to make do with a house gathering in the evening

Ok maybe I'm being thick but isn't a "house gathering in the evening" known as a party? Which is what a sweet 16 is?

I work in a school ad this would be very disruptive. Teachers and admin staff aren't bots that serve only to worship your little diddums, they have lunch breaks too and don't deserve to have this crap sprung on them and their lunch diatribes because some parent thinks darling is speshul.

FYI, people like you are one of the reasons teaching has become unbearable.

Was it a tampon shaped cake for her first period?

PizzaMom you're a nut job😂

Obviously none of your mums thought to do this for you or them

Nope, thank fuck, so embarrassing.

OP can you grasp that you can't just send in food and flowers because some children have allergies etc and also what a PP said about equality/popularity issues. What makes your DD so special that the rules don't apply to her, that teachers should be grateful to bestow such a preset into your princess?

I think it's Lovely, and I would have loved it when i was 16!

I was assuming that OP meant that if she (or whoever she is talking about) could afford it their child would have had the kind of sweet 16 you get on reality tv that is basically like a posh wedding with celebrity appearances.
Never mind. They can always save up and have Ed Sheeren serenade the A level art class for her 18th.