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.

💔💔💔

@EvilElsa

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

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Of course this was posted purely to be mean. It's right there in the thread title!

Sharing of sizes is sensitive for many young people. I’d have thought that would be obvious.

When DS left primary all the parents ordered massive sizes in hoodies because the children liked them baggy plus I always end shrinking stuff

Surprise parties are just a bit ridiculous really!

It’s OK if there is a relaxed attitude towards it, so if it gets ‘leaked’ it’s OK. But the only people that I know who do surprise parties are REALLY really really uptight.

Which is the opposite of fun. And of parties!

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That's more dramatic than the dog barking at my puppy thread the other day

I need to go out, I really hope this thread isn't pulled!

She is ridiculous. 😂

My DH is on the school WhatsApp group as well (not OPs one!) and we regularly have a laugh about what goes down on there

I cannot wait to show him this thread

Who cares if it gets back to the organiser and upsets her? Naming and shaming a child?! Maybe she'll realise her behaviour is very much out of line. Adults throwing tantrums is tiresome.

Reading about all this drama makes me think things were better back in the olden days when I left primary school (late 70s) and there was none of this. A special leavers' assembly was about it. Doubtless that'll get me called a grinch, though.

I'd ignore the rest of the drama, myself and ask her why she uses "Myself" wrongly, and at the beginning of a sentence.

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Heartbreaking!!?

No. It is up to EVERYONE, especially when organising a year wide school event, to take account of the kids needs. Maybe they should be sure to exclude those with additional needs??

@MondayblueFridayyellow Totally agree with OP, so dramatic. Maybe save the ‘being heartbroken’ for something being worth heartbroken about… 🤷🏻‍♀️

Also, I feel for the poor CHILD who has been excited and said something about a party… what is it the parent wants?! This child to be singled out and named in front of all of their peers?! Genuinely mental!

No personal details have been shared. Only those already privvy to the message would be able to identify it. So no, with PID included, GDPR doesn't really count here.

The mother was absolutely ridiculous.

But so is the OP for repeatedly claiming she's happy to have the thread deleted, and yet here it still is...five hours later 😂😂

Reminds me on our chat a few years ago. Apparently someone's child was 'devastated and distressed' at not getting a ticket for a show or something. Can't wait to exit our chat. Can.not.wait

This is GOLD. Gutted I'm so late to the party! I wanna know what Kimin... Whoever she is, has been raving on about to have been mass deleted like that!

This is exactly what I am here for, come on ladies, more of this!! 😂

Imagine the deletion message:

Message from MNHQ: "evening all, we have some very upsetting and heartbreaking news to share with you...."

But please don't!

Hello 'myself'!

I can't believe people like you exist!

Beetroot hummus 👀

I am agog.

AGOG.

We’ve had an imaginary mean girl, aged 11, mercilessly bullying a fat 11-year-old girl who looks dreadful in burgundy.

We’ve had the plans of a boy, also 11, just desperate to hide his bag-of-bones body in a baggy hoody, scuppered by his mother’s commitment to well-fitting clothes and a mortifying ‘XS’ written next to his name.

We’ve had cries of terror at the risk of GDPR breaches spreading across WhatsApp like an encrypted wildfire.

We’ve had cries of ‘won’t someone please, think of the children! Especially the neurodivergent ones we’ve just thought of!’

We’ve had laughter, name-calling, name-calling at the laughter, questioning of laughter, defensive shouts from fellow PTA parents, and we’ve had fermented cabbage (though she left hastily under a cloud).

Happy Friday, indeed.

I can’t wait for ‘Mum Myself’ to appear on Lorraine, sitting in shadow so as to protect her identity.