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Class and school parents group rules

Rules for a class group of parents, or of parents and teachers. They keep the group useful and stop it from becoming a complaint box.

*Group rules* 1. This group is only for class information: homework, dates, circulars and events. 2. Messages between 7 am and 8 pm, except for a real emergency. 3. No "thank you", "noted" or thumbs-up replies to announcements. A reaction is enough. 4. Questions about your own child go to the teacher directly, not to the group. 5. No comparisons of marks, and no discussion about any child or teacher. 6. No advertisements, forwards, greetings or fund collections without the admin's approval. 7. Do not share children's photos from this group anywhere else. 8. If you miss information, scroll up first, then ask one parent privately. 9. Complaints go to the school office. This group cannot solve them.

What a class group is for

A class parents' group has one job: to make sure no child misses something because a parent did not know. Homework, the timetable, a holiday, what to bring on sports day. It goes wrong when it takes on other jobs, such as judging a teacher, comparing children's marks, settling a quarrel between two children, or forwarding news. These rules bring the group back to its one job.

If teachers are in the group

Agree on hours when a teacher may be asked a question, and accept that replies may come the next school day. A teacher who is messaged at 10 pm by thirty parents will soon stop reading the group at all. Complaints about teaching, marks or another child should never be raised here; they go to the teacher privately or to the school office. Praise, on the other hand, is welcome in public.

Protecting the children

This is the part parents forget. Do not post another child's marks, behaviour, health matter or photograph without that child's parent agreeing. A remark about a seven-year-old, made in a group of forty adults, can follow the child through the school. When two children have a problem, the two families talk directly.

The admin will find ready reminders on the admin announcements page, and a welcome message for parents who join in the middle of the year.

How to use these rules

  1. Copy the rules and change any line that does not fit your group.
  2. Post them in the group and pin the message, so that it stays at the top.
  3. Put the one-line version in the group description. Ready lines are on the descriptions page.
  4. When a rule is broken, remind the person privately first. See how to be a good admin.

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