Annoying school mum sending crap on what's app class group

[MamaAffrika]

What do you do if you get a barrage of crap from other parents in your phone? I receive at least one forwarded message a day from an evangelical Christian mum. Sometimes directly to me and sometimes to the class group (which has about 45 parents). Usually useless fake news and daily mail sensationalist rubbish. I recently replied to her request for me to sign an antiLGBT petition and told her I disagreed. I explained my reasons about wanting to bring my child up in a tolerant society and therefore would not be signing the petition. It didn't make any difference - today she sent me a video clip of Katie Hopkins preaching her extremists views. I'm far more irate about it than I should be. I'm totally annoyed at her ignorance and her idiocy at promoting utter shit. She sends this crap to our 'What's App' class groups and other mums say they regularly get the same trivial shit directly from her too. Do I block the mum or is there another strategy? Our children are in the same class, after school clubs and go to parties together lots! Help me write a response!

Springwalk...that only deletes it for me though right?
Surely that’s all you need?

A whats app school group should be for information and news only. Clearly not for propagating political or idealogical views. Just leave the group. Start another one and label it "Info only - no politics or personal opinions"

I'm so glad whatsapp didn't exist when my children were small. It's so intrusive, just block her and go about your day with your children and don't engage with her.

I'd send counter arguments back. Once she realises she'll stop

Hopkins Unfinished not Price

In fairness, it's easy to get them mixed up- very similar.

LandL....I did this at first but I've realised that she's too narrow minded to see any other point of view. She signs off every message with 'God Bless' too - no matter the religion of her audience.
I should just block her but I see her regularly on the school run and have to spend hours with her sometimes at parties / parent events. I don't want her to think I'm being rude but do want her to know she's being a CF.

I don't want her to think I'm being rude but do want her to know she's being a CF

It's not you being rude, it's her - you say you've told her to stop?
If so, she's not though, is she - she's carrying on.
Either block or carry on seeing all her crap. It's up to you.

Argue with her on every single message she sends. Tell her how obnoxious you think Katy Hopkins and her supporters are. Be as rude as you want, let it all hang out.

Hopefully she will get so pissed off with you she will block you. Problem solved.

I'd block her anyway, OP. And if it's mentioned, you remind her you're not interested in what she keeps sending to you. As you have previously told her.

I would just post something along the lines of “can we keep this group for school related posts only please” and everyone else will prob agree. If she carries on or sends them directly to you then just block her.

This ^
You'll get lots of other parents agreeing with you.

Point out that if people are annoyed by people posting lots of stuff that is nothing to do with school, then it will just drive lots of people to leave the group, so it will become a useless tool anyway.

Why can't you be rude to her? She's a raging homophobe! Be as rude as you want

Respond with a link to this!

Just ignore

And I thought my school WhatsApp was bad!

Wow I’d have blocked her.

When I lived overseas our housing complex had a Whatsapp group with about 100 neighbours in it. It was useful for things like "whose is the lost dog- it's outside my gate" and "My water is cloudy- anyone else?'' type of thing, but OMG there was one member who shared dozens of political posts, scarmongering antivax stuff, nonsense stories like "My iPhone EXPLODED in my hand" - dozens of people asked her to keep it to neighbour info stuff, and it would stop for a few days and it would creep back. She was a complete pain and I did judge her.
I had to put the group on mute. I didn't know I could have just blocked her that would have been perfect

If you don’t wish to block her, could you put up a post along the lines of:

“Hi, could we all agree to keep political and religious content out of this group, in respect of the fact that there are families with different beliefs and approaches and this content can be alienating or divisive.”

There's a kid in school that, pushes, manipulates, punches and can be generally a bit of a terror. He hurt my child intentionally by stamping on his foot with studded boots after a tackle, they are 6. I spoke with the childs dad as this has not been the first incident against mine and other kids, the dad was defensive and denied any concern, basically saying he didn't see anything. My child was crying and came lymping of the pitch. Since then his wife has blocked me on social media, how dare I say anything about there precious child syndrome. Why are people not able to take accountability. I spoke with the coaches and they will keep an eye, it's so frustrating. Myself or my child are nice easy people, I wish I'd not said anything as it just causes such anguish but enough is enough sometimes.

Yes hardly the right sort for an Evangelical, she shouldn't be reading the Daily Mail either.