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DS forgot his homework. Should I take it in?

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TrappedByATurtle · 24/08/2018 07:16

He's 8. I told him to pack his school bag this morning, "Have you packed your homework folder, your water bottle, snack?"

He packed his homework folder, but not his homework which I waved at him. He has ASD so technically he did as he was told. I should have specified homework as well as homework folder.

I assume needs it for his lesson after break. I could potentially slip into school at break time, don't want to disturb the class! They have PE second lesson, but I don't know if the classroom is locked during PE/break time.

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MozzieMagnet · 24/08/2018 11:28

Ah, there are two ...

3luckystars · 24/08/2018 11:33

We are all shattered after the Summer.

My friend is a teacher and says by the June, she is physically so exhausted that she could drop. By September all the Irish parents are the same.

So it’s 6 weeks Summer holidays isn’t the UK and the same in Germany. Scotland is shorter again?

ThePricklySheep · 24/08/2018 11:36

Scotland is also six weeks, just earlier. End June to mid aug for us this year.

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PinguDance · 24/08/2018 11:37

Seems a bit unnecessary to link to school shootings in ops area I’m sure someone with a gun could get into a primary school with fences if they really wanted to

dementedpixie · 24/08/2018 11:39

Think Scotland has around 7 weeks holiday but we start at the end of June and go back mid August

Kool4katz · 24/08/2018 11:39

3luckystars yes, Ireland here too. I can't wait until next Thursday when mine go back. It's been 10 very looong weeks here. Thank goodness for the fab weather.

ShotsFired · 24/08/2018 11:43

Someone I know had a system for her children - they got 3 "passes" a term or a year (I forget - but you can choose)

They could be used for mum to bring in homework, or to give a lift if they got up late etc - anything they were otherwise capable of managing themselves. After the passes were used up, that was it, tough luck.

Maybe start a system like that?

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TrappedByATurtle · 24/08/2018 11:44

They do have a tannoy code about Frau Koma though should someone run amok...

Given that the fire alarm in KG was the teacher blowing a trumpet then shouting "fire, fire" on repeat I think it's safe to say our school doesn't have a tannoy system...

Mine had 5 weeks, but get 3 weeks at half term and Xmas.

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Kaykay06 · 24/08/2018 11:45

This is the last day of the first week of school here, I’m in Stirlingshire my kids had 7 weeks, all schools here have locked doors etc, Dunblane is literally a few miles away, my friend works in the primary school.

Glad your son got his homework ok, not sure I’d have taken it but each to their own as long as it’s not out of your way.

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TrappedByATurtle · 24/08/2018 11:46

or to give a lift if they got up late etc
Certainly not! If they're late, they run

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JMAngel1 · 24/08/2018 11:48

This thread is everything that's wrong in the world.

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TrappedByATurtle · 24/08/2018 11:55

Yes Mozzie, I have to say the teacher looked bemused. It wasn't his class teacher (she has every other Friday off as works part time) so probably didn't need it, but I didn't know that!

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Milliepatch · 24/08/2018 12:36

I am a teacher and one ofsted outstanding school i worked in wasnt secured like that, parents could come pretty freely. However it was a small school (80 chn) in a very leafy village. In contrast I worked in a school where every room was fobbed even staff room and toilets so this does vary across settings.

user1487194234 · 24/08/2018 13:48

Absolutely I would take it in
He's 8 not 18

strawberrisc · 24/08/2018 18:22

@Buglife pearl clutching about Ofsted

No, as someone who works in a school I “pearl clutch” for every time a parent who legally should be NC tries to get their child from school. Hth.

Stupomax · 24/08/2018 18:49

I'm in the US and our schools don't have fences either. They do have locks on the doors though - they brought those in a couple of years ago.

As for school holiday length, we are currently on either week 10 or 11, I can't quite keep up at this stage, and they have at least a week to go, and I am very very tired.

And OP, I'd have taken the homework in and dropped it at the office. My son is 13 but has ADHD and is doing his absolute best.

WaxOnFeckOff · 24/08/2018 18:59

For those saying security at there school isn't really required as it's only somewhere small and quiet, apart from the custody battles etc mentioned , you do know Dunblane isn't exactly a throbbing metropolis? It had a population of about 8000 and whilst the school was relatively large, that's because there are only 2 (and a very tiny church school) to cover the whole village/small town. It's a semi rural, quiet dignified place. The UK and Scotland in particular changed that day, security was tightened up and the days of wandering into schools and classrooms were gone.

BertrandRussell · 24/08/2018 19:02

I act on the principle that if I would do it for dp or a friend I will do it for my children. But unlike many people, i don't think people learn not to forget things by being made to face the consequences of forgetting them. However I do think people learn about kindness by people being kind to them. So if I could drop off forgotten homework without much inconvenience, and if I would drop off a friend's forgotten phone charger then yes, I would.

WaxOnFeckOff · 24/08/2018 19:13

Exactly Bertrand and it's what i said earlier. People wonder why there are all these adults around behaving in a selfish manner and don't seem to make the correlation. My teenagers are generally respectful and kind and never give me any bother whatsoever. They do still forget stuff from time to time though so what do I know?! :o

Stupomax · 24/08/2018 19:40

The UK and Scotland in particular changed that day, security was tightened up and the days of wandering into schools and classrooms were gone

However - the reason Dunblane has not happened again is not because schools now have fences. It's because gun laws were tightened up.

I live in the US and I'm under no misconception that fences and locked doors will keep guns out of my children's schools. Shooters can get guns into schools should they choose, as Parkland clearly demonstrated.

Stupomax · 24/08/2018 19:41

And isn't it weird that a conversation about taking homework to school turned into a conversation about school shootings?

WaxOnFeckOff · 24/08/2018 20:01

I agree Stupomax but the guns laws took a little longer to change than school security. The security stayed after the guns laws came in as A, it was now there and it made no sense to take it away and B it helped with other aspects of school security unrelated to a stranger coming onto school property. A fence wouldn't stop someone firing through it but it does stop a stranger or unwelcome person coming in the playground.

My DCs primary doesn't have a completely secure perimeter, but it does lock the gates at play/lunch times mainly just to stop people using it as a cut through when children are out playing so that the only adults in the playground should be staff so anyone else can be quickly spotted and identified.

MissWimpyDimple · 24/08/2018 22:32

Hessen is back. Been back for at least a week. All of the German states have different holidays.

And yes. Security and general H&S is very different. When I explained that DDs school is "nut free" other parents were bemused.

MozzieMagnet · 24/08/2018 22:47

Saarland too.
just in case OP is from Hessen

kmc1111 · 25/08/2018 00:20

I’m not sure why people think safe-guarding measures are going to stop a school shooting.

My DC’s school had high fences and locks and everyone was buzzed in through security doors and all that...but anyone who wanted to could just hop the fence and smash/shoot a window and be in within 10 seconds, so as far as keeping any real lunatics out it was all just security theatre.

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