Teacher- demanding parents.

[MissFrazzle]

Today, I've had two parents message me, both very rudely, wanting whole school text messages being sent out.

One was demanding we ask who stole her daughter's coat, another demanding a message about headlice because his son (with stunning long hair!) keeps 'bringing them home'.

I've helped to look for the coat, all around school, lost property, cloakrooms, and checked all the kids in my class that they haven't taken it accidentally. Can't find it anywhere.

The headlice thing is unfortunate, but I don't know whether he keeps catching them or they just don't manage to get rid of them all each time. We send out a letter if found in a class, and reminders in newsletters etc, and have sent out a letter in the past fortnight for this class.

For both situations, I'm not willing to spam around 300 families for something like that. AIBU?

I did wonder why we were getting text messages from the school about lost jumpers. Didn't seem normal. Now I know we must have similar parents at my DC school too.

I'm not sure, but I think head lice letters are common if there is an outbreak? I'm sure I've heard of it happening in other schools anyway. I would do that letter with a link to step by step instructions and a reminder that it may need to be done more than once, I'm sure NHS has instructions somewhere on their site.

I’m glad it’s not just my school! We’d forever be texting if every lost jumper or coat needed a whole school message.

At the best school I ever worked in, the headteacher sent out a whole school message informing parents that teachers are not expected to answer any messages whatsoever from parents. Everything had to go via the admin office.

(They would have advised the daughter to look in lost property)

Im a parent and think that is a fab solution for primary/ juniors.

The mummy mafia do my head in , I feel so sorry for teachers having to put up with so much nonsense.

This is exactly why I thought the messages were odd. Previously the most they would communicate about lost property were messages during the last week of school to say that there is a table of lost property in the playground so we should remember to look through for anything our children had lost.
I did also think that they could be setting themselves up for more hard work and us for 50 messages a day about water bottles and pencils and jumpers. They've texted us all about 1 DC losing jumpers, why not text us about every DC lost items? Where does it end? Don't do it!

Good communication with your child's school or teacher is important and I think helps parents help DC with school, but not for things like this.