Roll your eyes at the drama!

[MondayblueFridayyellow]

Some of the parents in our children's class have very kindly organised a surprise leaving party for the year 6 children.
The 'surprise' has unfortunately been leaked by one of the children. One of the mothers has sent a message to the whatsapp group (please see below. I have changed the names)
Do you think this message is a bit over the top? I feel for whoever's child it is as they will now be picked on.

The Message:

Evening all I have some very upsetting and heartbreaking news to share with you. 😢💔

It’s come to my attention there a couple of children who have access to this and the other PARENT group chat and have spoiled the surprise. Especially one child in particular I know who the child is and feel like naming and shaming!
They have shared all the information from the day of the party, time, what’s happening there and the hoodies.
They have even shared the sizes and colours to the children and that is sensitive information.

Myself, Parent 1, Parent 2, Parent 3 have all worked incredibly hard over the past few months from calling venues, DJ’s booking things and surprises.
We also all work full time have so much going on in our personal lives and it hasn’t been easy.
To say the least I’m extremely hurt by this as we have even kept all of this away from our own children. It really feels like a kick in the stomach. It’s been so stressful and now I personally am fuming all hard work has been wasted.
Parent groups are for parents and there are other conversations on the groups that aren’t for children’s eyes or ears.
We have expressed time after time this is a surprise and that our children do not know.

The jumpers have been a nightmare amongst other things going backwards and forwards to suppliers etc.

I really really hope the person that has done this is ashamed of themselves and comes clean to the parents and apologises!

For me the excitement has gone and if this information had come out even a week ago no would have cancelled the whole thing.

The school haven’t taken on the stress of organising any of it and we stepped up if it wasn’t for us the kids would just be having that one last thing together at flip out and nothing else.

I’m sorry to rant but I hope you can all understand how hurt we are feeling.

💔💔💔

Heartbreaking?

No- but I understand the disappointment of a surprise party being ruined by a blabbermouth.

I think you've been very bitchy, OP, tbh. It's such a lot of hard work trying to organise this sort of thing and when someone spills the beans it does spoil the surprise. Perhaps try to have a bit more empathy rather than bitch about someone who's trying to do something nice for the kids.

@MondayblueFridayyellow I just want to say this thread has got me pissing my pants. Thanks for an entertaining afternoon

agreed that posting the message verbatim was somewhat naive as the mum in question is likely to be embarrassed if she sees this in the Daily Mail and realises she’s been talked about. But we all do things in good faith that don’t turn out how we expect sometimes. It’s not your fault some people have been arseholes on the thread.

honestly you sound like my kind of mum

We were given the details for the class WhatsApp group before our kids even started… worst mistake of my life 😂

Tell that to the heartbroken maniac who planned leavers hoodies and now wants to ‘name and shame’ the child that let the cat out of the predictable bag.

Op, don't feel bad about posting this, it's the kind of gold mumsnet needs to counteract the boring shit. That's the beauty of an anonymous forum. People post the most intimate details of their lives here, relationships, family issues, financial woes & no one bats an eyelid. I dont see why some posters are getting their panties in a bunch over this. It's been a while since we've had a good pta drama. Remember lemon drizzle cake gate?

Surely the kids will be more excited if it's a badly kept secret they all get to whisper and speculate about?

True - my friends and I would have been all over this shit 😂

The heartbroken maniac 😂

Ok yes overly dramatic and a bit silly BUT going against the flow slightly, this part:

They have shared all the information from the day of the party, time, what’s happening there and the hoodies.
They have even shared the sizes and colours to the children and that is sensitive information.

Makes me wonder if the child in question has done a bit more than you would expect from and excited 11 year old spilling the beans.

I mean, they've memorised (or written down) sizes of hoodies...why? Has that possibly been used to be unkind to children who are outside the norm?

Crikey! I can't look away...

Ooh, what was lemon drizzle cake gate? I need some more entertainment today...

Agree!

Have a browse through Classics. I've whiled away many a dull office afternoon in those golden archives 😂

of course

but it's not about the kids, it's about the organiser 😂

That tickled me too 🤣

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1718384-To-pelt-my-cakes-at-this-mums-head-in-the-playground-this-afternoon-fume

Loved lemon drizzle "punch a cake"

OP should be back from the school run by now but there's currently murder going on outside the school gates because some heartbroken woman is asking why the Daily Fail know what colour hoodie her child is wearing at the leavers do.

We've lost sight of what a normal hoodie size is.

Best comment. 🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂

Any 11 year old memorising and broadcasting sizing of classmates - was doing so with intent to be nasty

The yr 6s will love being able to look forward to it now. Every cloud, and all that.

But who leaked it?

its… Rebekah Vardy

I still think this must be Portsmouth...