To think the Ofsted inspector who blames WFH parents for low attendance is probably just resentful?

Children with lower attendance tend to have parents who wfh or do not work. I would say he was stating facts OP.

My friend keeps her children home often on her WFH day, she finds it hard to say no when they are tired, although school have noticed a pattern in their days off.

I can’t think of anything worse than having kids flapping around us while we try and work.

You are one of those who have a plan in place and make it work between you and your DH.

There are some who wfh with no childcare in place.

There have been numerous threads of people wfh with toddlers and babies to look after.

Some who brag about not doing much, logging on and snoozing through meetings, doing the school runs, chores, etc whilst pretending to be working.

Not all productivity is/can be tracked and some people do take liberties.

So although it maybe jealousy from some,
it's not surprising that companies are calling people back in.

If wfh is more productive, companies would stick with it.

Unfortunately it's the few lazy ones who spoil it for everyone.

He's basically saying..
"When I were a lad, me dad got up half an hour before he went to bed. He made us lick road clean before putting our cardboard shoes on"

This was back in the 70s and 80s as the man is 52.

Reacting to the national absence stat going up without looking into why, is dim.

Saying people just want to stay at home and not put their shoes on, labels parents as lazy.
It could be that the awareness of viruses is higher now and parents worry more about long term exposure to chest infections and the like. It could be that they don't want their I'll child to spread it to their classmates.. classes are a lot bigger now than they were, its not just 1 kid infecting 20.. it's 1 kid infecting 30 or more.
It could be that parents have more knowledge of such things these days than back in the 70s
It could be that some kids have mental problems, that they hate school and they hate teachers and would happily murder them... So the parents keep them off hoping to get mental health support, but that never comes due to cuts..

It could be any one of a thousand and 17 reasons..

But no.. old man blames it on things not being how it used to be...

Whether or not the comments are odd (and I don’t particularly think they are), I really can’t see why you’d call them resentful

I work from home twice a week and a main purpose of this is so I bring my kids to school!

I think it's more likely to be because these kids 'worked from home' themselves for the best part of 2 years, so they don't see why it's not okay to do that now. And in some cases, I agree with them. Turning up to an old-fashioned didactic classroom as per the last few hundreds of years or more may not necessarily be best for everyone.

This. It's perfectly possible to work from home and still be strict on valuing education and making sure your children go in to school each day.

The number of pupils not attending 10% or more of sessions (ie missing at least one day per fortnight) has approximately doubled since covid (~10 % before 2020, ~ 20% in 2024). So there is obviously something going on, and quite possibly related to covid and things associated with that (eg working/studying from home, lockdown, mental health, increased medical waiting lists etc). I suspect there's more than one issue at play, but I think work from home /hybrid working is a big change and it's reasonable to hypothesise that might be a cause. He's also not saying it'll be an issue from everyone who works from home, or even a majority, but for some it may be. But 20 % missing more than 10 % is a lot and as a society we should be aiming to reduce this. Understanding why is often the first step.

It’s probably got more to do with schools closing over Covid, kids being abandoned in a lot of cases (from an education standpoint), schools closing on strike days.

Marketing the importance of attending school is somewhat undermined when the schools themselves seemingly close ‘when it suits’.

I've read the article and I think the blokes talking out his arse.

I agree.

I went back to the office full time 12 months ago and have definitely sent my kids to school this year on days I'd have kept them home when I was wfh.

The only evidence that the full article has is the stats on current absences which have increased significantly since Covid, and that working from home has also increased in correlation. It has absolutely no evidence that there is any causation apart from supposition.

Personally I think it's far more likely that long term impact of lockdowns are continuing to be seen in the absent rates, rather than it being significantly linked to where a parent works.

Hilarious. Going to go and look through the news headlines now and make up a load of threads making stuff up as I go just to get the masses riled up. 😂

Take a read op

then see if you’re frothing with resentment

Turns out op hasn’t bothered to read the article 🙄

Apparently not. No because it’s behind a paywall bit of a contradiction there OP. you claim to have read the article, except you haven’t and have made up a viewpoint from a quote.

Maybe go and read the article first. And if you can’t read it then it’s a bit disingenuous to start a thread about something you know nothing about.

Archived 14 hours ago.

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Sounds like this Ofsted person either never works or is resentful others get to work from home. Both are possibilities.

Am I missing something? In what world is it neglect if one parent gets up and goes to work before the children have got up to go to school? Surely that's normal in many households? It was in mine, and I certainly wasn't neglected.

No. Most people don't.

You realise you are just shouting into the wind if you are asking people repeatedly to read the full article.