School WhatsApp wildness…

[Fruitbatdancer]

I’ve lost the will to read the school WhatsApp already…
they don’t go back till tomorrow and there already been 30+ messages today.
everyone whinged about no update from school, update sent, then they all whinged about the update. The slagging off (of the actually very good I think) school and staff is wild.
one of the email updates today was on parent code of conduct and it specifically said parents will be banned from school premises if agressive and inappropriate behaviour on social media! Made me lol as then they all bitched about it! It’s the same 3/4 mums.every. Time.

30 messages in and someone just asked if they go back tomorrow 😂

please tell me most parents are also reading this shite thinking ‘how do these people function in their day to day lives’?!

id remove myself but then I’ll be ‘that mum’ 😂

I was added to it against my will when I RSVP’d to a party. I think I’m still in it but it was archived immediately and I’ve never read it. I’m definitely THAT mum… The playground conversations are tedious and I have absolutely zero time for it. I turn up on time and leave immediately. Love it when I’m at work and DH drops at breakfast and afterschool club.

Exactly this - why would you care what a bunch of irritating strangers think of you for leaving? You clearly don't like them anyway!

That surely makes you the normal one? We only use it for specific mums nights out, think everyone would go mad if they had to deal with ten messages about Violet's missing bottle every day.
OP, leave. The school will tell you what you really need to know, just make a smaller group with friends that won't post messages everyday.

Omg sack that straight off!! Absolutely not needed for secondary!!

I haven’t got WhatsApp at all just so I don’t have to be in groups. Then I can just say ‘oh, I haven’t got WhatsApp’.

People need to leave these groups and stop being afraid of FOMO. There is zero reason for anyone to be in a secondary school whatsapp.

We have a rep who does a weekly reminder of stuff

eg first day tomorrow, PE kit needed on Tuesday etc

one mum who predictably asks the question that she can a) find out for herself on the school website and b) read the rep’s newsletter

every bloody time

I was in work on Wednesday and when I checked my phone there was about 40 messages, this was the day before our children were due to go back in.

It isn't a bitchy chat (thankfully) but there are a lot of pointless messages and it is generally the same mums asking the questions and answering. It was great for the first few years as all the party invites were sent to the group, but being 4 years in, class parties aren't a thing anymore.

God so lucky with ours, bar the odd annoying question that could be answered if they read they emails, it's pretty tame and everyone is pleasant. It's mostly just full of helpful reminders.

Tbf I have been lucky in general with youngest ds class. Parents and children are on he whole pretty nice

Ours is really nice, both mums and dads equally contribute too which is good to see.

My kids are secondary age now and I know a handful of parents in their year groups. I have never even considered the need for a parent WhatsApp group past my son’s primary one, which was lovely. We’ve coped just fine without them at secondary.

Me too I find it loathsom. I immediately remove myself from anything like that, no real accurate information is exchanged, just silly bitching and mindless chatter.

Ours is a wholesome mix of arranging an open invite weekend at a holiday park (and the equivalent end of summer term camping), exchanging second hand uniforms, clothes and shoes, and arranging playdates.

It is a very middle class local primary school, most of us are professionals and thus well drilled in never slagging anyone off in a way that can be screenshot!!

At my DC secondary school the WhatsApp groups are a hugely successful fundraising vehicle for the PTA. They raise tens of thousands every year. This is much harder when you’re not at the school date every day.

This, I’ve had 2 kids through primary and secondary and never been on a school what’s app group.

Argh read the thread!! All these posters talking about birthday invites and trips to the park! Yes they can be useful for primary kids when mummy is fully I. charge but are flat out weird for secondary! Try arranging a park met for 13 year olds and their parents - it will not go well!!

Our school had a hilarious one for Bronze DofE a few years ago. Honestly, you’d think they were going trekking in Alaska or the Sahara for a month rather than the Derbyshire Dales for 2 days.

Some parent anonymously summarised all the complaints and made a hilarious post on the group calling out the nonsense. That caused a twittering! Best WhatsApp group I’d been in in a long time.

Clearly I lead a dull and boring life.