To tell DD's school that if they won't let her watch the solar eclipse, I'll keep her home until its over?

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I asked today what they were doing about it and the head said they were just carrying on as normal.

I want DD to see it. DD is desperate to see it. Its 90% here so worth seeing. We can easily make a pin hole projector though I will try to get some eye protection.

AIBU?

Really pleased with DS's school. They sent letters home this week saying we could attend an event run by the local astrological society if we want to take our kids there ourselves, we had to return the slip to school to say we'd be attending then bringing kids to school. There will be special telescopes to look through.
Kids in school will watch it on the Internet.

Great solution IMO.

my y5 child has been told by her teacher that looking at the sun is dangerous but it will be OK for a few seconds!!!! we will be watching at home I think

It's a gorgeous cloudless day here in Berlin, and virtually nobody has protective glasses because none were being sold. It's going to be a bad day for the eye departments of hospitals.

It's also the worst case scenario for the solar energy providers, because on a sunny day the difference between normal daylight and the reduced light during the eclipse is at its greatest, and there's consequently a bigger danger of the system collapsing.

I've just been out to test our colander reflection and it works wonderfully - we're going to have fifty mini eclipse reflections on a sheet of A4!

DD1 has gone off for her flight - we suspect that the cabin crew is going to insist that all the window blinds are down for the entire flight .

Bit gutted dds' school is doing nothing about it, but when i asked if i could bring them in an hour late, school said no or it would go down as an unauthorised absence. I've taken the 2 little ones in but unfortunately dd1 is poorly this morning ;)

It wasn't very good in London. The sky was covered in light grey clouds, so it got a little gloomier, chilly but apart from that you really wouldntve known anything was happening.

16 years ago was so exciting! The weird watery shadows on the ground, the birds going silent, the darkness and icy chill...

Oh well, at least I didn't nearly fry my eyeballs by thinking 'hmmmm, I wonder if I can look at it in a mirror...'

DD1 has gone off for her flight - we suspect that the cabin crew is going to insist that all the window blinds are down for the entire flight

DH showed me on FlightRadar yawn that several transatlantic flights did weird loops for peak eclipse time so everyone could have a gander.

DS1's school let them in early and had arranged glasses (£1) for any child that wanted them.

DS2's preschool strictly kept all the children in, but put the telly on BBC1 so they could watch the best bit in the middle, if they wanted to tear themselves away from Playdoh and dressing-up.

DH was in the garden. NDN has a welding mask so they were using that. I had a quick polite glimpse at 9.32 (peak here) but otherwise not terribly interested.

It has been beautiful clear skies here all morning [smug] but it did get noticeably dim half an hour either side of the peak.

We got really good views of it up in Cumbria. All the kids at DSs school made projectors and we got a text from the head this morning saying they where really pleased they all managed to see it.

It was fairly awesome to see

DH showed me on FlightRadar yawn that several transatlantic flights did weird loops for peak eclipse time so everyone could have a gander

That's amazing!

Both of my teens "went to the orthodontist" this morning. I understand it would have been hard to manage a full viewing in a school of 900 pupils. But the Head wouldn't even allow the school's Astronomical Society (about 20 pupils, including my dds), to get together and watch.

There are eccentric heads who make daft decisions. Parents can stand up for their rights

Heisenberg, check out their tweet about it from earlier.

I watched it on TV It is impressive proof of what scientists tell us.

local astrological society

I do hope you mean Astronomical

I vacuumed my car out while it was happening. It didn't go any darker and I couldn't even see the sun because the clouds were so thick. Was rubbish. It was awesome in Newquay in 1999.

The headteacher was very nice when I took DS out of school. We stood in the playground for 45 minutes and watched it, sharing the glasses occasionally with staff who popped out.
Even though it was cloudy we had a good view most of the time.

Apparently, there was one London school who wouldn't let the kids watch for 'religious and cultural reasons' (of so the Evening Standard reports). My mi d is boggling...

nochoc how weird. I wonder if it was in case it was seen as Pagan, worshiping the moon.

Oddly it was a non religious school. I could understand if they said 'we don't want to risk fried eyeballs', but religious and cultural issues?

DD goes to a catholic primary and they made a big event of it this morning . She really enjoyed it .