AIBU to think school closures ignore parents' work commitments?

when it suits them to a bit of time off on top of already excessive time off

You know that the school year is set for children, not teachers? Do you think children get 'excessive time off' from school?

Thats your opinion which you’re entitled to.

Same as I’m entitled to be sick to death of the encroachment of the education system on family life and the majority of teachers and DFE demonising parents a lot of the time for many reasons whilst dropping them in the crap with “we’re not childcare” when it suits them to a bit of time off on top of already excessive time off compared to modern working patterns. I know quite a few parents who have been harassed over attendance when it was legitimate (sickness, family emergency) so my point was, you can’t have it both ways that parents don’t get ticked off when you call a 1/2 day at a moments notice and dust your hands off with no empathy.

And they do froth at the mouth generally whenever you mention shortening the school holidays. You see it all the time on threads on here.

Edit: as for comprehension (which I stand by). I’ve said I agree many times with it being too hot and school should be closed in this rare instance. But I also empathise with OP as most schools communication styles and lack of consistency on messaging is irritating at the best of times. It’s the dusting off of hands and no sympathy for parents probably having an unpaid day off work whilst teachers retain their pay. It’s the communication styles.

I find it so very, very distasteful that 'teachers' are treated as if they are one homogeneous individual.

'i take it you are a teacher by your lack of comprehension'

'frothing at the mouth'

What an unpleasant way of talking to someone and about other people, most of whom you've never met. Utterly horrible.

I can hear her saying this in that patronising voice.
I reckon she should lead the way and show how it's done !Lets see her in a glass classroom helping out !

Agree unless there is air con they can't do a single thing !! And it's the getting there and back !

Schools aren't babysitters. They have to do what's right for health and safety.
If anything happened a parent would moan that the child should not be in school.
Can't please everyone.

This. No wonder Brits are laughed at, with our panic over weather. 🤷‍♀️

Because there are not 30+ people in one room.

Why do they assume that the parents' homes are any safer in terms of heat?

The small rooms filled with 32 children? Or an office somewhere with just you and a fan?

Larger buildings are subdivided into smaller bits called rooms which can get as hot as hell. Not sure what the size of the building has to do with it.

Well I live in a smallish newbuild that is hot as hell and the school I work in, being a much larger buildng, is actually much cooler.

I think the obvious point is that all buildings are different.

The sort of thing I am thinking about is getting involved in building and refurbishing schools, going back 30 years (that's how long we've known we have a warming world).
There is a lot of passive cooling that could have been put in, but instead as several posters have said, large areas of glass on South side with no trees - trees even being cut down.
Trees
Shades over windows
Windows with exterior shutters as a unit
White roofs
Passive ventilation including eg Roof windows that can be opened to release heat

Even without this, schools could be painting their South facing windows with greenhouse shading. Better summer uniforms. Stop cooking hot food.

And have an actual plan for extreme hot weather instead of having to scramble and leave kids waiting for buses at midday.

The cost of this week's closures is massive. If the heat continues are the schools going to close again? When are the years 10 and 12 going to do their mocks? When is the curriculum learning going to catch up?

Our schools finish Friday for summer hols anyway. They’ve stayed open this week despite weather but only had 2 days of really hot so far and there’s fun activities for end of school year. I can’t be off (NHS) but luckily have GPs who could step in. Prob won’t last long but hope we don’t get the scary thunderstorms like England. It sounds great to have sunny weather but not so good in the scary thunderstorms after. ATM naked in bed. Given up on football. Maybe World Cup should be in winter in whatever country! Never heard of hydration breaks before but great they have them

Fair point @noblegiraffe

There are some people who work in schools who never go near a classroom, tbf.

In which case you must know that homes are not as hot as most classrooms

Lol, I do work in a school 😂

If you are a consultant who operates on people and have planned clinics then you really should have a good back up plan rather than just ‘cancelling’ clinics and surgeries.
I presume you realise people go to the back of the queue when surgeons/consultants cancel their clinics/surgeries??
School is a place of education -not a childcare provider -and people with hugely responsible roles which the taxpayer pay the wages of should really hve a plan B rather than causing massive upset and potential health issues for ll the patients they just ‘cancel’.
If you are not a surgeon/consultant please disregard this post. 😀
I havent RTFT so if someone else has already pointed this out -sorry!

@BringBackCatsEyesif they said they were closing early last week everyone would be up in arms that the weather could change that far in advance.

I still come back to the loos! Hydrating is all well and good, but what goes in must come out, and toilet accessibility at my kids school, anyway, was extremely low, and they were so bloody awful the kids didn't want to use them nohow.

Literally everyone you know has one parent sitting at home all day, not working or making any other commitments, because they don't have "childcare" for their school aged kids?

School is ALSO childcare. If schools didn’t exist then we’d be paying for childcare like we do before they go to school. This old BS again 🙄

What plans would you suggest?

We do not have the money for AC. We simply don't. We can barely afford the basics. We've had a two year recruitment freeze and our budget is still fucked. We'll be lucky if we get through the next year without making anyone redundant. The only way AC is achievable is if it's fully funded by the Government and that's highly unlikely to happen.

We all understand that. OP was mainly venting about the blasé way short-notice closures are announced.
Just stick to the facts - school will be closed due to the heat.