Roll your eyes at the drama!

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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.

💔💔💔

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If the child is playing/watching something on the parents phone then when a WhatsApp message comes in then it will appear at the top of the screen for a short time.
Secrets are kept by keeping stum, not group messaging.

It must surely have been 'myself' mum's DC who shared the info, as they would have had access first. But then another DC took over and told more people ('myself' said it was more than one, but one in the main), so the second one managed to tell more people than her own and her own is miffed at having thunder stolen. Double ouchy!!

And I have laughed so hard at this thread - especially the Melissa McCarthy scene shared very early on. Thank you for putting that one up!!

PMSL

Lol Lol this wreaks of Motherland 😂HILARIOUS.

Also, on this, I bet every kid got a L/XL anyway, so it lasts a long time, and looking like you’re wearing one of your dad’s ‘decorating/hangover hoodies’ is de rigueur, currently.

Let's face it, the reason this mother is so heartbroken is because she wanted desperately to do the big reveal to all the children herself and feel like some kind of PTA wonderwoman. Now some bastard little 11 year old has stolen her thunder and she wants blood revenge them to take responsibility for their wrong doing in letting the cat out the bag.

Sorrows, sorrows, prayers.

Sorry could you link to where Op talked about this bully?

In any case, I don't believe the sizes were ever shared. I think the woman over egged that.

As pointed out by an above poster, if she did, that's her own stupidity. So it was OK for every parent to know everyones size, just not the kids. PP is right, she just wanted to have the glory (as proved when she was going to cancel it all!)

OP, I'm sorry you're getting such a hard time. I don't think it's mean spirited at all. It's so utterly ridiculous that PP who love to come on here for an argument have been forced to be mean to you and when that fails they've come for those of us who laughed at elemnts of it. They shouldn't ever go on classics, they'd explode.

This is straight out of Motherland.
Her ego has got muddled up with her kid's.
I personally think surprises are mainly organised by control freaks.

It doesn't happen often to me when reading a forum, but I have laughed at the "fretting at fat and skinny kids you've made up"

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

and a couple of others.

‘Myself’ is a bit of a prick. And there are loads of v highly strung nut jobs on this thread 😂

Bingo. and I'd bet my lfe the kid only said "we're getting hoodies" and the woman has made the rest of it up.

Very sensible post.

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

This would have made me think that someone had died. The message is awful just for that alone.

Nutter.
Kids won't give a fuck

Talking about GDPR op has shared word for word a message intended for a select group meaning that the original texted could be outed.

Where on earth have all these fictional side characters come from?! It's like a shit kids movie plot.

I don't think that's a GDPR matter, but I'm not an expert.

Your thread title - Roll your eyes at the drama!

Why don’t you volunteer next time if you’re so chill and drama free?

Wow! That kid needs to boycott! 🤣 I hope she isn’t on mumsnet or you will need to boycott too!

What makes you think she’ll be upset? She sounds so chill.

GDPR? I don’t think that applies to personal activities if memory serves, but nonetheless someone should get the GDPR commissioner on the phone in case one of the imaginary size shaming bullies have become identifiable.

i could be wrong, maybe Myself has a business organising surprise school discoes.

😭😭😭😭

I know, it's amazing! At one point we had an imaginary small underweight boy, and an overweight 11 year old girl, who some poster invented and got unhealthily defensive over.

Both are now being mercilessly bullied for having a hoody ordered in their size in a colour they couldn't choose, as some other made up child maliciously read the message and told the whole class the size of everyone's hoodies 😆