I don't think I've been over the top but have I?

[hotmessmom82]

Basically a parent with a child with covid symptoms has kept one child off but not her youngest (in my son's year). No testing booked etc. But as we all know the mum jungle drums go off about these things. Another parent has spent over 6 hours today explaining to the school what is going on. Unfortunately this seemed to fall on deaf ears. The mother works in a salon so is around people all day. I contacted the salon and told them. She told her employer they had the test but it was negative. Blatant lie, generally I wouldn't care but I don't feel it's right to say oh yes my one child has symptoms but not get the test or self isolate. I'm fully prepared for the backlash from the mother's mafia but now they have to be tested. I just don't think you can go telling people someone potentially has it and do bugger all!

Jungle drums?

You rang her work?

You believe another parent spent 6 hours trying to explain it all? What a load of shite... Which school can lose a member of staff for 6 hours listening to a gossip?

Rumours, gossips, racists, this thread has it all.

You should be humiliated and thoroughly ashamed of yourself.

Have you got any professional help or anybody to talk to about your anxiety in real life? This was a sustained episode of crazy in reaction to some gossip.

Phoning their work 😂

@hotmessmom82

She has told people she hasn't. And as we all know mums talk! It has been confirmed by the school the child is at the reason she is off school. Obviously I know they shouldn't be telling parents these things but it is worrying.

Not all mums 'talk', by which you must mean, 'gossip'; I never did, avoided it like the plague. As for the school, the staff should know how to keep matters in confidence. It all sounds quite gross, frankly.

You don't know the ins and outs of this case but if you feel your child is at risk you could keep them at home.

Jesus, how, HOW do people get like this? Jungle drums? 6 hours informing the school? Poor school! Probably rolling their eyes.

Would I do it myself? No. But this is so fucking weird. Bunch of vigilantes we have here. And let's be honest, the child probably just has a cold .

@TorkTorkBam

Have you got any professional help or anybody to talk to about your anxiety in real life? This was a sustained episode of crazy in reaction to some gossip.

I wonder if the op has anything to do outside of the home because the way she is carrying on, she doesn't seem to be employed.

You sound utterly unhinged.

Please stop harassing this woman.

Sorry but you sound like a nutcase

Wow OP, you really need to get a hobby or something better to occupy your time. I cannot fathom calling someone’s workplace to tattletale. You need to take a good hard look at yourself

Just wow, people are phoning schools and employers based on gossip! If some had told me what this Mum is supposed to have done I would do nothing. Its gossip. It may be correct but you can't police everyone.

@springiscoming12

Wow OP, you really need to get a hobby or something better to occupy your time. I cannot fathom calling someone’s workplace to tattletale. You need to take a good hard look at yourself

She does work, I've just re read her posts; I can't imagine someone with an absorbing job going so over the top like this.

Is this real?

What are the symptoms? Is it just a cough and cold? This is what my daughter has now. 111 told me unless she has a temperature she doesn't need to be tested but must stay off school til she has recovered from the cold. No need for us to self-isolate.

You phoned her work???

You phoned her work. You nut job!

My boss can’t get a test but has been told she can’t come back to work til she has results. Absolutely zero availability.

Goodness, this almost sounds exactly like what a troll would post to create maximum froth.

I’m sure OP is not a troll though

Another parent has spent over 6 hours today explaining to the school what is going on. Unfortunately this seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Deaf ears, you say? I'd have been well nigh dead after having to listen to six hours worth of shit stirring from some wee tell-tale-tit. was it you?

As for the 'mum jungle drums', 'mothers mafia' and 'we all know how mums talk' - I swear my ovaries dried up and fell off reading that.

You are something else OP. And not in a good way. I just don't have the words (that I can say here anyway)

"mum jungle drums" "mums talk" Sounds like a bunch of fucking bullies. There are hundreds of threads about "school mums" like you.

@hotmessmom82

I would pay good money to hear the phone conversation you had with her work 😂 what did they say!? They must have been thinking who is this crazy lady!? Op they’ll be telling this story for a long time after Covid is gone.

Racist AND a busybody AND don’t understand that ‘in several short instances over the course of six hours’ isn’t remotely the same as ‘six hours spent in total’. Out of interest, have you any redeeming features?

We are all probably going to get this virus...It is just a fact of life.
No man {or woman} is an island.

Schools are Petri dishes of infection.. All one can do is to try to follow the rules and use common sense.

Wow. People like you make me scared to leave the house. Covid 19 does not give you a right to fuck with somebodies life. This is horrible bullying. Really horrible obvious witch hunting. Across history people like you are known for being a scourge on the rest of us

Madness

6 hours though?

Do you drive your kids around?
Covid is less risk to them than your car. Literally. Try and get some perspective on the fear that has been irrationally instilled about this.

Being unhinged in this manner and ringing someone's employer on the basis of gossip doesn't make you a good citizen, it makes you "that crazy snitch lady that keeps calling!!".

Madness.