Anyone else hate the school run?

Cherry_Bomb

meritaten wrote: »

they speak Welsh amongst themselves, which means you dont even have the entertainment factor of eavesdropping!

How rude!!!!

mammyof7

Either myself or my husband has taken our kids to school every single day for the last 13 years. The day that my yr1 son moves on to juniors will be the end of an era for us. This is because parents have to drop their child off at the gates and are not allowed into the grounds or the school (I have no problem with this).

I've never been one for cliques, and although I'm certainly not rude, I DO prefer to keep myself to myself. However I do think some mothers in my sons class look down on me as we're not from the more "affluent" part of town where the school is based. Yet little do they know that after Christmas I will be working in the school as part of my teacher training. I must say that I'm looking forward to it just to see the look on their faces.:rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

meritaten

mammyof7 wrote: »

Either myself or my husband has taken our kids to school every single day for the last 13 years. The day that my yr1 son moves on to juniors will be the end of an era for us. This is because parents have to drop their child off at the gates and are not allowed into the grounds or the school (I have no problem with this).

I've never been one for cliques, and although I'm certainly not rude, I DO prefer to keep myself to myself. However I do think some mothers in my sons class look down on me as we're not from the more "affluent" part of town where the school is based. Yet little do they know that after Christmas I will be working in the school as part of my teacher training. I must say that I'm looking forward to it just to see the look on their faces.:rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

whoooo boy!!!! so would I be too!

Becles

adamantine wrote: »

im just back from the school run and i was ignored again as were the fathers who collected their kids and the couple grandmas who came for grandkids.

I walked home with the Grandma of a boy in my daughters class the other day. We both left at the same time after dropping the children off and her house is past mine, so we walked back together and chatted.

The clothes comments have made me think I must be accidentally playing major mind games with people! I work from home and most days I'm away doing calls straight after the school run, so today I was in business trousers, heels, smart wool coat, neat hair and make up. If I'm just working at home I'll be in jeans, fleece, trainers, ponytail and no make up. If I've just been for a long walk with the dogs, I'll have muddy wellies, muddy waterproof and a pocket full of poo bags and occasionally I've turned up in muddy gardening or paint splattered DIY clothes. Never been in my pyjamas though!

gratefulforhelp_2

runningwoman wrote: »

Cheers OP, for pointing out the human dynamic where you can't keep yourself to yourself without it being viewed as "stand-offish".


Personally I really don't care what my colleagues or peers are up to, I like to keep myself to myself just because I do - I'm not judging or "being better" than anyone, I just like to do my own things with people I choose to spend time with.

I aspire to have friends whose company I enjoy and who I can be "myself" with and I can completely trust and vice versa, not just to fit in and to show I'm "one of the girls".

No reason to justify this. I'm a single woman, that doesn't mean I HAVE to always turn up to things when invited or be the one to fill in on the tennis team or offer conversation beyond "good morning" or help out at someone's bloody charity get together or whatever. If I had babies that wouldn't mean I felt the same as every other woman with babies in the world.

I bloody hate that expectation that just because I'm got ladybits I'm some sort of sociable supportive creature, I like being a moody isolated git. And I don't get a bloody rejection complex if Other People want to keep themselves apart from me, I assume they've got their own stuff going on.

But it's tough when you end up getting judged as a result - where there's this thinking that "if you're not with us you're against us".

I'm not a mum but the number of times I've been on the receiving end of BS just because I don't get involved in any workplace/social hierarchy or share nuggets of my personal life for people to gossip over is unbelievable.

Oh, and I speak with an RP accent and try and dress smartly, so of course it ends up being a "class" thing and I end up being viewed as snobbish because I'm a private person (plus I'm partially deaf but don't wear an aid so not good at conversations in big groups). Never mind that I'm not actually posh, I still end up getting done up the rear for other people's insecurities.

Grand debate OP, thanks for starting it

Great post and you've made me feel a whole lot better about also being a moody git!

meritaten

Its a RED letter day! One of the mums actually spoke to me today!!!!! probably because I was the only one there, and she wanted to make sure that she had really seen that the nursery class yard was set up for painting!!!! thats right - PAINTING! either the little dears are going to freeze, or there are going to be a lot of annoyed mums trying to get school paint out of littlies coats!

lmao - what planet are the teachers on? or do they think we live in Australia? Its the end of November FGS! and the daytime temp here was 8C!

Nicki

The National Curriculum requires a certain proportion of nursery teaching per day to be done outdoors irrespective of the weather though. Which is why, unless it is tipping it down, the little darlings are wrapped up warmly in their coats and welly boots and sent out to play in the sand or water trays or to paint, all year round. My guess is they wouldn't have been out for very long though if it was icy cold, though it is unseasonably mild with us for late November

nearlyrich

I don't do the school run but some of the people who drop their children off at the school nearby often stop me from going out or getting back in by parking across our access road so yes I suppose you could say I hate the school run;)

meritaten

Then in my opinion the National Curriculum has been set by nutters! While its ok to wrap kids up warmly and send them out to run round and play outside in November - I dont know a single parent who would set out the garden furniture for the kids to sit outside and paint!
Every parent commented adversely as they came through the yard!
It was dam cold just here - just waiting five minutes in the yard and I was glad to get moving again!

dawn_rose

I find the school run hard. Mainly because of the comment i had requiring the colour of my daughters skin. (baby in puschair) im very pale and dh has a dark olive skintone baby is honey toned but has the darkest skin of my three children she said shes got a suntan, i said she has darker skin coz of my husbands dark skin to which she replied to my baby she needs put you in the bath dunt she. Common cow shocked doesnt cover it.
She sees herself as queen bee.
I have 2 classes to hover between as got a reception child and a year one child. I dont really quite feel like i fit in with alot of them really........