Teacher bragging post… AIBU ?

[Glitterzzz]

So we have a online learning platform for all the kids at my child’s school. We get send messages about their learning , photos of what they have been doing and class message for all about things like pe days and book bag days …

Tonight we have all been sent a message to our child’s learning platform about a child in the same class as my son on being a absolute star for reading 100 books on the platform..

Fab! Great!

But …

Why is this being announced to all parents ? This is the child of the class lead parent ( she’s on the PTA, her son got the lead part of the show at Christmas , she set up the wattsapp, she’s very hands on) never before has there been a message regarding another child’s achievements being shared with us all since they started school…

I just think it’s a shitty move on their part
The most important person to see this would be the child and his parents so makes sense to send it on his learning platform surely ?

I also think it’s insensitive to some of the parents who might read this and be worried that their child cannot it has not hit that milestone ( I’m not talking about my child I’m happy where he is at )

AIBU to think this

Is this typical of schools?

Possibly to encourage others ? Or to showcase the achievements ?

Not sure why you have a teacher bashing title to the thread

Why can't people be happy for others anymore?

Why must no-one else ever have anything nice or be celebrated just because they aren't?

Definitely feels a little bitter, on account of you mentioning the parent's involvement with the school. I chair our PTA and can assure you neither of my children will be getting this types of announcements. I'm assuming you're trying to bring to mind for us the 'PTA Mom' trope to make yourself feel better.

Why are you so bitter about the child's achievements being celebrated? Do you not think they deserve it? Is reading 100 books just worthy of a shrug and an eye roll?

If the kid has read 100 books then bloody well done to him - regardless of who his mum is! Presumably all the children have the same opportunity & none of them have achieved that yet. As long as they're then mentioned when they do, then how can it be favouritism? It's certainly not 'teacher bragging' !! It's celebrating a worthwhile achievement which is what schools do, all day, every day, up & down the country. And so they should - particularly for reading!

As for his mum being heavily involved in the school - good for her, too! Most Primary Schools are working bloody miracles whilst being horrifically under resourced & need all the help they can get!!

You sound really bitter. I've no problem with achievements being celebrated, especially academic ones. In my dds school, as in most I imagine, it's cool to be good at sports, gymnastics and climbing and at 6 years old some of the children in my dds class refuse to read to parents on a night time. If show casing a good reader encourages one child or parent to try a bit harder then great!

You better get used to it. There will be newsletters each month for years highlighting the achievements of pupils. Some get mentioned a lot, others never. That's life.

What would be very wrong is if the school was selecting specific activities that means that only a selection of kids are likely to get mentioned. Achievements should cover all disciplines taught by the school.

If school didn’t give out recognition for good work done you’d be up in arms. Ditto the infamous “ star of the week “ ( which we all know is given often to encourage struggling kids eg “ xxxx is star of the week for sitting beautifully in carpet time every day “ when your kid is doing algebra )

Schools really try their best. Praising one kid isn’t putting the others down and learning we all have different challenges and achievements is part of learning to get on with others.

My ( now phd non stealth boast) kid got a headmasters special award at age 11 for her cycling proficiency - why ? The rest of the class did it too - well she couldn’t ride a bike at the start really and weathered the indignity of falling in the spikiest bush in the park in front of all her peers as well 😂

@arethereanyleftatall

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So, if you get an awesome parent who's prepared to give up her own time to make money for the school to help all children, you tend to get awesome kids.

Total bollocks.

On the one hand I probably wouldn't even notice something like this (i tend to filter through school communication for anything that affects me). On the other it doesn't really seem like an appropriate place to share. None of the other parents really need to know this, unless the aim is to create some kind of competition.

That's normal for my dc's primary. We used to have a celebration assembly and parents could come and watch their dc getting their certificates but now the assembly is on zoom from the classrooms and parents get the information on an email.

Oh honestly.
The teacher won’t know or care who started the class WhatsApp chat.
Kid reads 100 books, kid gets a mention in dispatches.

This is just silly. Why are you annoyed about a school celebrating a child's achievement? It's just petty. Leave it and move on.

Its better than it always being about sporting achievements

At least it's an achievement that anyone could have gone for.

Not about sporting or academic talent, just sharing lots of books with a parent.

Maybe teacher was hoping it would inspire more reading.

Share 100 books with your kid and see if she gets a mention. If she doesn't you can call favouritism.