If you’re not in the U.K., you don’t really have to spend any time faux laughing over this. 🙄
Lots of the U.K. are predicted up to 40, not just over 30, if you googled before commenting, you would know that. We have had temperatures of 30/32 before and although hot, people deal with it and don’t mention keeping kids off school.
And whilst you can say school ‘should’ have plans for temperatures getting up near 40, their plans for our school are to say no ties or blazers and to advise suncream. That’s it. Sports day, PE, cooking are still happening. Oh, and blazers still have to be in their bags at some schools.
Many of our schools are very poorly maintained, windows don’t open (if there happened to be a breeze) and many rooms at my child’s school don’t even have a fan. Some classrooms are extremely small and cramped, barely fitting 30 children in which adds to the heat.
Uniforms are cheap, hot material here, very different to those in countries that regularly get hotter temperatures. Some head teachers still insist on blazers unless it goes over 30. Some teachers still don’t let children have access to water in lessons.
And also, many of the parents I know that are concerned, have children with SEN or other health issues or they are actually more concerned about the travelling to/from school rather than the school day itself. The tube isn’t fun in 32 degrees, I dread to think at 40.
So hold your faux laughs in and let people here in the U.K. decide what is best for their children. The fact that we don’t get this often means that we can choose to not send our children, because missing a couple of days really won’t make any difference to their education. If the U.K. had these temperature more often, there would be actual real plans in place, at the moment for secondary schools especially, the plan is ‘just deal with it’, because it’s a nuisance to change any lessons, clothing, etc and attendance matters because of Ofsteds ridiculous demands.