Picking child up from somewhere that isn't school

[backinthebox]

AIBU before I really get rather cross with school?

DD's primary school have their harvest festival church service today, and last week we had a letter sent home telling us this and asking permission to allow our children on the coach. The local church is in a very rural location, accessible only if you have a car or like walking for MILES uphill along narrow lanes. There was also a box to tick which I didn't read properly, I will confess (form came home in the first week of school and there was a flood of paperwork, most of which I skim-read,) asking parents to tick a box if they wanted their child returned to school afterwards - it turns out this box was only for children in the after school club. I ticked it, because I didn't notice this small but important fact!

OH and I both work. I work strange shifts so can usually drop DD off and pick her up, but on the days I can't we have a local lady act as our nanny, and she does not drive. She walks DD the mile home from school, which is fine - school have a massive 'walk to school' campaign going on all the time as we live in a rural area and a lot of people do drive.

AIBU to think that if you drop your child off at the village school it is not unreasonable to expect to be able to collect them from the village school at the end of the day?

Don't get cross, just repeat to the teacher this morning that you are not attending the service so you need your child to come back with the teachers. They will be coming back anyway so it's no bother.

This is your fault really. You didn't read properly so how can you be cross? If you had read it you could have enquired at that point if you didn't want your child to walk home. Yabu.

I agree with lizzzzyy, just explain the situation and say that your DD needs to come back to school.

Hopefully there won't be a problem and all will be amicable, don't get cross unless you really need to imo.

I do pity schools in these situations as they can never be right!
DS had an occasion last year where he went to watch the infants school production in the local church. This involved him and his year group walking the mile from his school to the church.

After the performance (at the end of the day) they walked the mile back to school.

The church is right next to my house, so I asked if I could pick him up from church and was told "no" as they couldn't have some children going off and some not.

So DS walked the mile back to school, I picked him up, and he then walked the same mile home again.

Redsky - typical! They can win though, they just need to think things through a bit.

Backinthebox - what are they doing with all the children who don't go to the afterschool club? Surely you aren't the only one with this problem Sounds like an odd arrangement to me. You drop them off at school - you pick them up from school unless you choose to make a different arrangement (like Redsky wanted to) surely??

How did it go at drop off?

You just need to speak to them

I think our children go to the same school...!