AIBU to say NO to sending my Child to School when there is no Electric?

[Kassy69]

Should my DD be allowed to still go to school when there is no heating or Electric?

Views/Opinions or experience if this has happened to your childs school.

Where I am it's snowing with bitter winds. I would not send my child to school with no heating in this weather.

There are no legal limits regarding minimum temperature in schools, however, there are guidelines from some teaching unions that children should not be taught in rooms that are below 18°c whilst for adults, the guidelines state a minimum of 16°c. here

I'm in Scotland and it's baltic. Had to scrape the car this morning and the roofs where the sun hasn't hit yet are white.

I had always thought that the temps were a legal minimum - but if seems that the staff are more protected than the kids which seems crazy. Maybe the teachers are not in unions (unlikely) or they just have rubbish union reps who are ineffective in pressing this issue?

No way would I send my child in if there were no heating or electricity and especially if he was wetting himself due to being scared of dark toilets. So many health and safety and we'll being issues there.

This happened a couple times at my primary and we as kids thought it was great fun! Was really exciting (probably wouldn't have been as impressed if it was a regular occurrence though...)

YANBU.
When I was at senior school in the 1980s, if the school temp dropped below 15 degrees, we got sent home.
I don't remember whether or not we had any powercuts that affected us though - but I do remember being sent home because the heating had packed in, and also when it snowed really badly.

At 4, I definitely would expect the school to close if it couldn't heat the building adequately - electricity, not so much of an issue during daylight hours.

Our primary has shut before when the electric was off as the water didn't work without it.

Our primary school would shut - it did last time a power cut happened. I'm also near Manchester, it's very very dull, cold and it's started snowing heavily again. There's no way the HT would open the school if there was no power in this weather.

It wouldn't bother me. I would send my kid in with ski gear and a torch.

When I did my O Level mocks it was 11-12 degrees C in the school hall. We survived.

Definitely, we had no heating when I was a child, it was cold in the classroom and you just got on with it.
No wonder kids are ill all the time these days, we need to toughen them up a bit.
At least a cooler classroom will stop so many germs for a while.

I'd send them in with extra jumpers and thick socks, and a hat & gloves.

Didn't know about the Power Cut until we turned up the school and it lasted all day, so extra clothes and torch was not possible. Luckily my DD is not prone to being ill so I am lucky on that front, just the odd snotty nose.

My children were kept at school all day with no heating or lighting and fed ice cream, tuna and bread. I was not impressed. Piles of snow outside. We'd been told there was a problem and if we heard nothing by the next morning it's because it was fixed .

What's the temperature op? And apologies for asking again but is there definitely no heating?

If it is cold (less than 16 degrees) and dark I wouldn't be sending my child unless I had to do so.

At my old school we had a generator as back up. I can't imagine it now but I expect some schools do! When our heating failed at work we had giant industrial heaters delivered like rocket thrusters.

movingonupmovingonout I don't know what the temp was but it is a fairly old school building, they still have the high cistern toilets! To tell you the truth I think it is economy 7 heating as I'm pretty sure they are like heaters on the wall with a guard around them.

actually you all may be onto something there - I'm sure when we used to get sent home it was because the teachers had legal protection, rather than the pupils.

Yeah cos we all have ski gear

School sent everyone home when there was a power cut at dds school.

Power went off at ds school this morning and they closed just before dinner as it isn't due back til thus evening