What do you think about school finishing early for the football?

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That really. This letter comes home Monday saying this;

*"Football is like marmite..... From time to time.... Very Important matches involving the England team are held in school time and this can cause big problems for families who value football highly...... Therefor for this match only we have made these 3 options....;

1. Collect child at 1:20pm onwards so can settle as a family to watch kick off.
2. Collect at half time, between 2:30-3:00 so adults can watch the while of the match and still collect children.
3. Collect at normal time.

All children in school that afternoon will have a choice of activities, either ther watch the while match or arts and crafts."

*somewhat shortened

I'm a bit stunned by it personally.

Whilst I originally thought that this decision was pretty daft, I cannot get over the outrage by some parents over the screening of this match.

Don't be so bloody dramatic. It was 90 minutes of football, that's all. 90 minutes where the kids (of whatever age) weren't 'learning'. It's not comparable to a day, a week, 2 weeks off school on holiday - not even the slightest bit. Kids didn't have to watch it, lots chose to, lots did other activities. No-one suffered for this decision.

Lots of schools in my area noting that absences were increased that day (where the match wasn't shown). So the schools that did show it made the right call - kids missed 90 minutes rather than 6 hours.