To want to drop and run at school?

[Cuppaand2biscuits]

My dd is 6 years old, in year one. The school got a new head teacher in September who implemented a new morning routine that I just can't get on with.
Old morning routine = Assemble in playgroup, bell gets rung, all children into lines, teacher leads into.classroom. Parents welcome to follow if children requests or they wish to speak with teacher.

New morning routine = Everyone assemble in classroom. Some mornings we have to choose a book and read with our children for 5/10 minutes other days it's 'Wakefield Up Shake Up' where we have to dance along to a bouncy routine! Then the tambourine rings and we kiss goodbye and leave.
Obviously I don't object to the interaction with my child but there's 30 pupils in the class, each with an adult and lots with a younger sibling or 2. It's too many people, it's too hot when we're dressed for the cold. It's a bloody faff!
Anyone else successfully challenged this sort of shit?

OMG where the hell do these teachers get off? I have never heard of anything like this, and am constantly amazed already at the extent to which teachers seem to think they are in authority over the whole family and their family life, not just in charge of the pupils while in school. This is a whole new level of Fascist Forced Jollity TM (non participants will be treated with deep suspicion)

It's a classic example of extravert thinking - people together being noisy = automatically good

The old routine is more sensible and definitely more common practice. The new routine is disruptive and highly unsettling for some children and I am surprised a headteacher has implemented this. It also discriminates against children whose parents have to get to work.

It's a classic example of extravert thinking - people together being noisy = automatically good

^^This.

Small room, lots of people, bright lights, tambourines, everyone loud and wobbling their body and in everyone's face. My idea of hell. I'd rather clean all the school toilets all by myself to show my commitment.

yes and I'm sure some of the children feel the same way.

If you are a working parent , there is no way you could accommodate that . It would drive me bonkers I have to admit !