Why can’t parents look at the term dates for DC schools

Some people think being 'scatty' is cute. It is not. It is just another word for badly organised. Hence all the posts about forgetting parties, non uniform day, and now even the bloody end of term!
Most of us work and if you made such errors at work, you would be pulled up on it.
Get a family calendar and mark everything important on it. Everything. And yes, that means reading your emails, gingerly through your kids' reading bags for letters, asking other parents if necessary.

It's very easy get a date wrong. Some people are bad with dates. Maybe they checked the calendar and saved it incorrectly into their personal calendar. They may have 3 different children in 3 different schools, they may be involved in multiple sports clubs, they may have a job that involves a lot of planning and organising. And so they dropped the ball on this one thing. No need to be so smug because you didn't. Honestly I would be more concerned about how alert the children are, it very strange that they didn't speak up or notice that everyone talked about end of year.

Just because some areas break up on the 22/23 July, other areas break up at different time. Leicestershire for example breaks up a week earlier than all the surrounding counties - because in the olden days when there would be holiday weeks when all the local factories shut down at the same thing, the Leicestershire factories would shut down a week earlier than the other counties. Was a way to spread the load of people going on holiday across the summer.
My niblings tend to go back to school in the last week of August whereas my DC would end up going back to school a week or two later, depending on the way the days played out. They don’t like it at the time but they love the fact that they can break up sooner than my kids and my sis and BIL love the fact that it’s usually a cheaper week to go on holiday rather than peak summer season.
And that’s goes all state schools in Leics - I have no idea if the private schools in the county break up even earlier!

I don't fully understand the OP... they saw some kids in school uniform but those schools have broke up already, so they are saying why didn't those parents check the term dates?

Personally, I would have noticed them and not given it another thought. They'll notice when they get to the gate and adjust their day accordingly. Ours are at school for another week and a half, so I'm surprised some schools are off already. Maybe your friends have the wrong dates?

Thinking back to when I was a kid that would have been so great to get to school, only to realise it's closed! I hope the poor mums have back up childcare if they need to go to work though.

Very few people, if anyone can get through the whole of their DCs school lives without making a single admin error. I once turned up to a school assembly none of my DCs were in, I realised after it started and had to sit through it politely.

OK - so you are being unreasonable. I no long her school age children - but a quick Google tells me end of term is around 22/23 July this year.... So I assume you're kids must go to private school (fine no judgement) but surely you realise most schools haven't broken up yet??

Depends where she is - it' another week and bit here but Scotland often earlier and Leicester it's Monday 14 th - they are often different to surrounding counties so couple of inset days they could already be broken up.

DS did AS-level exams last year at college (no uniform) - he knew he needed to go back a few weeks to college to start AS2 work - a few of his peers missed that - but he finished a few weeks earlier than school where DD2 was at and he didn't realise.

They did a week of fun actvities last week - he thought it odd but only when a freind told him before end of last week did he realise - at post 16 he gets himself there and back no I have zero input and don't get the same level of commication from college - a valueable lesson in checking not assuming for him.

So unnecessarily unpleasant.

Seems q early to have broken up unless Scotland . We have another 1.5 weeks.

I think every mother on the planet has got the wrong date at some point.
Busy with kids home life work not everyone is going to be on the ball at all times.
Im not a mother but i have had to ask about dates etc where ive been so busy stuff just flys over my head.

I have 3 children at 3 different school which all have different last days of school or inset days and half days ect. It's a bloody nightmare to know what's happening all the time. I do put it in my Google calendar but i still struggle to know what's happening for who.

Also just give people a break. It has no impact on you what's so ever.

I just can't imagine why it would bother you.

I have to confess mine got an extra days holiday one time when I had for some reason unilaterally decided it was a teacher training day.

OK - so you are being unreasonable. I no long her school age children - but a quick Google tells me end of term is around 22/23 July this year.... So I assume you're kids must go to private school (fine no judgement) but surely you realise most schools haven't broken up yet??
And even if they had - it's quite easy to make a mistake on this - dont be so judgy.

I also thought of Motherland straight away!

Anyway OP you don’t know 100% of what is going on at the school, it would be weird for anyone to miss that the last term of the school year had ended as it’s such a big deal, our school do have to send out about a million reminders though so maybe it’s more common to forget than I realise.

Shocked at the voting and if people think it's acceptable that parents are this useless and clueless. YANBU OP!

Jesus we are all out here doing our best and you never know anyone else's circumstances, they clearly have lots on their minds so give them some grace, maybe they have adhd, maybe theyre dealing with a lot, maybe they're just not v organised. Give people a break, it has literally zero impact on you

Bitchplop - I love that and will start using it forthwith! Perfect word for these type of posts!

Congrats OP on being better than them

I was thinking this too....are you sure school is finished 😂

If that school does the same as mine that doesn't included the inset days as you have to check it in another page of the app I can't blame those parents.

I'm another one who took the kids to school on an inset day once, luckily a teacher saw me half way there when I was walking up and pulled over to tell me. I felt a right wally!

I'm actually wondering though if you've seen that many apparently get it wrong, the more likely explanation is that there is something on at the school that you don't know about OR there has been some sort of change to the end date that other parents have missed somehow.

Oh dear..the summer hols have just started and OP is bored already. Clearly has a lot of time on their hands to come on mnet and complain about something that has 0 impact on her life 🙄. Looks like it's going to be a looong summer for you OP 😆

I agree with you OP - the amount of parents on the WhatsApp groups that say ‘what time does sports day start?’ ‘Where do we meet for the trip?’ Can they wear their PE kit?’

I screen shot the email from the school giving you every minute detail and just send it in reply to the group.

What I really want to put is….

READ THE FUCKING EMAIL BECKY!!!!

I’d feel such a twat being continually out of the loop and appearing to know fuck all about my children.

Yet another bitchplop one post wonder OP

I did that once.

Found out later about a quarter of the school did - date wasn't on school webpage and two classes one s with my DC in were told a different day of the week - newsletter had different date and no text/messages reminding.

They still thought parents should just know - it was lucky I could be around some parents were in a huge pickle. Rest of the time at the school they were very good at sending out reminders and having correct dates on newsletters.