Given detention for lateness on tube strike day

They may well have been everywhere at rush hour, but you don't have the first idea whether they ALL got in on time. For starters the school's pupils will be coming in from very different addresses. Some of them will have had straightforward journeys or been able to walk. Others on much busier bus routes or caught in gridlocks.

As I said in an earlier post, in the late afternoon I witnessed 11 year old pulls begging to be let on a bus that was packed and refusing more passengers.

Some kids dont do well with change. Regardless of how much you prepare them. Gotta love ableism.

Lots of those children wouldn’t have used the tube to get in. Where I live and my journey in isn’t impacted at all.

I live outside of London, but even I understand that the number of people living and working in London and relying on public transport is absolutely vast compared to pretty much anywhere else.

Approximately one million people use the tube at the time that OP 's DC would be going to school (there are four million tube trips per day) Adding a million people to the number who already use the buses and taxis at peak time, means that the transport system simply won't cope.

It's bizarre that so many people on this thread can't see that.

Having lived all over the U.K. - you really need to understand that in the event of a tube strike traffic is gridlocked. Not “that journey took twice as long as normal” gridlocked. Not moving in 40 minutes gridlocked.

Those outside of London don’t appreciate the rest of us not having a tube system at all

Well you can't get on a bus if it's full, no matter whether you are 12 or 45.

If there's transport running, why can a twelve year old not get on it?

Strangely the kids from city of london school managed to get in.They were everywhere in rush hour.

You are an adult im presuming not a 12 year old child.

Most nd kids are let down by schools. Workplace and schools are two different ball games. Im disabled so know my work generally looks after me to an extent. My kids however have been failed by the school system and only now my 17 year old is getting support in college.
Talk to any sen parent and you will find d out exactly what a fight for your child is like.

Do teachers have some kind of special tunnel to the school then? Maybe they could let the kids use it as well so they could be on time. 🙄

As already mentioned there has been times when due to an accident/train strikes/roadworks that mine have been late for school. Teachers as well have been sat in the same traffic.

I had a dentist appointment the other day where the dentist was late due to major road works going on.

It’s not always possible to plan ahead and many have other commitments theirselves such as childcare where they can’t drop their kids off in the middle of the night so they can make it on time or at a school gate at 6am just so they can leave earlier.

No body is immune from it just because of their profession.

DD’s teacher was late, by 2 hours, not 5 minutes. The world didn’t end.

Why am I not surprised that the OP is generally unimpressed with the school.

Clearly this is just one issue in a long line of issues you have with the school.

so you think the school is “too rigid” and “doesn’t consider fairness when applying their punishments”.,, what about how you regard the school’s teaching and pastoral care @Longingdreamer ?

Totally unfair to punish a child for lateness due to tube strike. Child left for school early. I would phone school. Many NHS staff were late too. Not everyone can stay in hotels or leave young children to go to work hours early. It’s inevitable people would be late. Punishing for the sake of punishing serves no purpose at all

Many people hate lateness, in the casual sense. What you have going on is something a little more intense. I suggest you try to dial it back a little bit, for the sake of your own peace of mind and that of any employees/students you may be supervising.

In some schools the teachers were late.

The craziness of cyclists in central London today has been on the news - it's been absolutely carnage out there and definitely not something recommended for a novice teenage cyclist with a dodgy knee.

School are unreasonable giving out a detention to a kid being 5 minutes late due to the tube strike.

But agree with the PP to work on de-escalating the status of detentions with your DC. Even if the school did back down on this occasion it's likely that your child will get another for some other (petty) reason.

Yes very, in case you are unable to read!

Imagine if teachers just rocked up late because of a tube strike and your little darlings were left waiting outside for them....

Your son was late, late is late strike or not!

I would be writing to the school and making it very clear that I (as a parent) do not accept detention for my child due to the extenuating circumstances and she will not be attending. As they have to give notice, I would be collecting her at the school’s finishing time when the detention is set.

My employer cancelled my travel to London due to all this. I cannot see how the school expects you to get there on time - if the transport is late.

This sounds ridiculously rigid of the school, they need to get in touch with reality. Unless you cycle or skateboard you won’t get anywhere on a strike day

That’s bonkers. Loads of stuff in London’s been cancelled and people have been late to work as a result. I’d kick up a massive fuss about this.

Until you enter Kensington & Chelsea where the borough council are idiots.

I doubt it, London was gridlocked. The only people getting anywhere on time were those on bicycles.