Late School Start Monday

@TakeOnFlea a spirt of togetherness only happens when it’s a thing we care about doesn’t it?

Possibly does but I wasn't responding to the OP

The Coronation
The Jubilee
VE Day
The Queen's Funeral

I think this list serve to prove OP’s point actually. Basically we are awarded bank holidays/lie ins for royals or football (notably not for VE Day). Bread and circuses.

Personally I’d have liked a lie in last Friday after the election results - we did the school run on 3 hours sleep.

Regardless as to whether people are personally interested in the football or not (I’m not, and won’t be watching), huge numbers of the country will presumably be watching and the schools will be doing it to protect their attendance numbers to some degree. My kids have finished for the summer so it makes no difference to us anyway, but despite being a non football watching family I couldn’t get worked up about it. I’d just take mine in at normal time.

I assume it's the timing.
The match starts at 8pm so they will be going to bed a lot later than normal.

I think the school is just trying to offer a.nice gesture to the parents in light the football. And it's entirely optional - children can still go in as normal as well.

But some people always want to see negativity in whatever others try to do.

Schools don't allow poor attendance for any other reason. They actually crack down pretty hard. Even being ten minutes late is a big deal. It seems odd to make an exception for something as nonsensical as a football match, but that might be my personal view coming into play 😂

Weve just had the updated Fines letter saying how much it's going to be next year.

Different things and unrelated to one another.

The increase in fines is not coming from the individual school and it's been well published for several weeks/months now.

Plenty will. Tesco is shutting their express stores for their employees to watch the game.

My children’s schools will be open all day which I’m glad about because it’s the last week of term and I have loads to do before Friday. Losing a day would be really annoying.

@MinnieMountain where did I say anything about "giving a crap" about the royal family? I was replying to the poster who said national celebrations where some leeway is often given is "only ever football".

The Millenium was another. You don't have to "give a crap" to lighten up a bit and take it for what it is 🤣

It's optional so I see no issue.

Staff will have to be in anyway and will look after children who arrive at the normal time.

School likely know there will be some disruption due to a late finish in the Sunday and are just taking a sensible approach to potential lateness or absences.

You'll have more people bring the children in a bit late when it's allowed rather than just taking the while day off if it wasn't allowed.

Parents can make a choice. Can't see the issue with that.

And I'm not even a football fan. It'll be in our tv but I won't be seeking it out and watching specifically. I still don't see any real issue here.

It's also happened before for other big events.
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But the school may actually be doing it in response to poor punctuality because of the football. A third of our pupils missed registration yesterday. My friends school was something like 46%. So they made the decision to do a late registration on Monday anticipating the same as it negatively affects their records.

Or plenty of us who also don’t give a crap about the royal family @TakeOnFlea .

I would struggle to pick many of the England team out of a line up and the only rule I really know is you're supposed to score goals past the other teams goalie, but my god I get swept up in the football fever when the world cup and euros are on.

I think it's because the school has said it's ok for kids to turn up late because there was a football match on the night before. It sets a pretty weird example on lots of fronts.

I don't get the big deal and why people are 'fuming' about it. The school is open. They can send their child at the usual time. They can choose to do it or not.

I'd be annoyed too. It's the principle that men's football is something that everyone will be excited about. As a family we have no interest in football, men's or women's. I find the culture around football gross. And yet, by setting this rule that children can come in later because there was a football match on TV the evening before, it sets the expectation that everyone will be watching it. Why should my child be made to feel left out because he doesn't like watching football? Should we all be forced to watch football? I don't see this happening with any other "cultural event". Are we going to let kids come in late because there was a tennis match the evening before?

Also echo PP, even I know the women's football team won something recently so not sure why this is such a big deal.

"Why does togetherness only have to be about football?"

The Coronation
The Jubilee
VE Day
The Queen's Funeral

And that's just the last few years. Some very short memories on this thread. Misers.

@Dontcallmescarface are you referring to parents or staff when saying it isn’t for children’s benefit? All staff will need to be in as school is open, it’s just the closing of registration that is late

"I think some schools did this after the Womens Euros as well."

Well they didn't but ok 🤣

People need to seriously lighten up and remember the excitement as a kid when something big and out of the ordinary happens.

Same here OP - we’ve just received a similar email. I think it’s ridiculous, and hate football’s hegemonic status in our culture - the whole thing is toxic IMO. We’ve already had a non-uniform day to celebrate England reaching the semis. No mention whatsoever of the Olympics happening later this summer.

I’m a governor at the school, and given that DD is a keen footballer herself I’ll be keeping a close eye on the school to see what, if anything, happens with the Women’s Euros next year…

Lovely, I hope our schools do this.

I still get goose bumps when I think about some of the games played when the school put them on in the hall. The atmosphere was electric and the children had a blast. Wonderful memory.

The school should insist that all the DC are there at the normal time otherwise they have opened themselves wide to parents not bringing their DC to school on time on other occasions . "Sorry but Jimmy won't be in school until after 10am on Wednesday because there's something on the telly he wants to watch that doesn't finish until late. It's ok though because you let it happen when the football was on". Of course we all know that the late start is not for the children's benefit at all.

I think some schools did this after the Womens Euros as well.

Unlikely. That was an afternoon match on 31st July, so in the summer holidays.

Unless you're saying they did it for matches earlier in the tournament? I'd be very surprised.