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?

Weird.

I genuinely went to private school with someone who got dropped off every morning by helicopter!

Fucking killjoys!

Get a grip.

Starting to think my last school was weird now! Pizza Tuesdays were quite normal!

This used to be a thing at the school where I work - but for sixth formers, & very much their privilege - they were allowed fast food deliveries if they went to the security gate & signed for them.

It got ditched this year because it just led to stinky rubbish & food waste all over the Common Room, which wasn't fair on a) students trying to study in a room which suddenly reeked of greasy pepperoni, b) the cleaners & c) the inevitable food fights leading to the CR being put 'out of bounds'.

The decision to knock it on the head cams from the student welfare committee in fact - the kids were totally over the whole thing.

Daft idea, OP.

Also YES obviously teachers can order in if we like. We're adults in the workplace. Jeez.

You will make your dd cringe run and hide in the toilets, do not do this to her

Do people not think that secondary schools still have lessons on a Friday afternoon? That it’s all pizza parties and sweet 16’s?

Come on.

We wouldn’t have delivered anything to a child during the day in our school either unless it was something like medication or an urgent message. They would have to pick up the Pizza, flowers, balloons from reception at the end of the day. As the girl suggested it , it wouldn’t have been a surprise wouldn’t it?

i might do this next time my teen DDs a cow to me in the morning . order balloons to her school.

"Was it really that odd?"

Are you really that unaware or is this a wind up?

I would have died of embarrassment if my mum did this to me at school! I would never do this to my daughter. 

Was a nice idea and a lovely thought but should have stayed just an idea or maybe you could have got her flowers and a balloon and gave her them after school.

You’ll have kept the entire staff room entertained anyway. They’ll have a ‘nick name’ for you.

For my 16th my mum's bought me breakfast in bed.. which was a doughnut she ran out to the bakery to buy with a sparkler candle in the middle.

If shes aware of where you stand on the financial foodchain then she probably knew she wasn't going to have a MTV sweet 16 with a Mercedes being delivered to school

It seems as though you and your daughter are attention seekers.
Both of you were being unreasonable.
Grow up.

Staff are there to facilitate your child’s education.
Not an informal birthday party.
Grow up

Way OTT and would be seriously frowned on at dds school. If in 6th form I think they may be able to order pizza in, but they have to collect it at the gate. But for year 11s, no way.

Helium balloons have been banned. They are a shocking waste of a finite resource that is used in medical imaging and for other “proper” uses. Totally unenvironmentally friendly and also was apparently becoming ridiculous with multiple balloons per child per birthday.

Very American.
I think your DD watches too much reality TV if she suggested this and wanted a sweet 16...

DD loved it actually apart from the pizza standoff with the Ms Trunchball wannabe's and not being able to take the flowers (they were a surprise, not the same as getting them at home, nicer to get them at work etc). They didn't tell her they'd come until she went to reception at lunchtime for the pizza's but will happily send runners to tell DC that their mums sent in forgotten PE kits etc.

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

I can’t believe I’m reading this.
Forgotten pe kits are part of your child’s necessary things for their education.
Can’t you see how that is different to staffs time being taken up with pizza deliveries, flowers and balloons?

OP, your posts are getting funnier and funnier.

Why come on and ask if ybu if you've decided you weren't?

Nice flex but ridiculous. No wonder you're clearly known as "that parent".

Showy, classless and brash.

#didnthappen

Or if it did I’m just aghast at the fact you think staff at a secondary school have time to organise this sort of shit for your precious dd. Do you know how many 16th birthdays there are a week at a secondary school? Or birthdays in general!

As a teacher I’d be raising both eyebrows at a parent expecting this to be ok. They have to find a space for this to happen - which you didn’t know would be available - and then allow for the people doing it. You would have caused a massive disruption.

You deserve every side eye you get!!

But like I say, I think #didnthappen