To want to drop and run at school?

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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?

Aaaah hold on so you are there till 8.55 well sorry but most school bells don't go to 8.55 so if you arrive at 8.45 instead of standing in cold your raking child straight in doing something for the ten mins you woyld be sat in the cold then leaving normal time you leave the children school doesn't officially start till 9 but they take them 5 mins early so theu sorted for start of class this is not what I thought and is not that bad

Just don't do it. Say "bye darling, have a great day" and ushering them in then leave.

DS is in year 6 and I now have a very laissez faire attitude to drop off which involves stopping the car for a nano second, chucking him out and letting him wander into school (usually far too early so that I can get to work)

This is my idea of utter hell!

I'm a disabled parent of three, s I'd be needed in two classrooms (soon to be three!) and have a toddler to get to preschool three days a week. On his preschool days, I let the kids out of the car and watch them walk through the gate from a distance (ooo, I feel a song coming on there... Must supress...) unless I have to go into the office. On the other two days, myself and the toddler come into the playground with them if I'm well enough, but even then, as soon as we get home I have to go straight back to bed with the toddler watching tv (he loves doing this by the way, thinks it's a treat!) as standing around in the playground is so hard for me.

It would make me incredibly ill to have to do that every day- or even once- so in my case I'd even be shouting discrimination! It's the exact opposite of inclusive.

I'd love to know how the school is "forcing" hundreds of parents to comply with this 😂
I think it's more likely that everyone is just going along with it like sheep and bitching about it instead of having the nous to just drop and go at the correct time. What a non issue 😂

Oh god I think I'm going to have nightmares about having to do a dance routine at drop off. YANBU. I quite like that drop off at my DS's school is in the classroom so you can go in settle them if necessary then scoot off whenever you want.

I've haven't read all
Thread I'm in a hurry! But just had to join in - we do this at our school it's awful! I have been commenting about it for yrs on parent evening feedback forms but just get ignored! My reasons for not liking it are:
It's too crowded and hot!! Must be against fire regulation 60 + people in. Tiny classroom.
Really hard when you've got toddler or baby and toddler or 2 toddlers with you!
Really hard when you've got more than one child at school and expected to be in both classrooms.
Really hard when you're in a hurry to go to work makes you feel guilty
Really hard when you've got a child that crys because hanging around makes it worse - and sets others off.
And my children are so busy looking at everything else going on they are not interested one bit in doing whatever activity they are supposed to be doing!! On pe days they want you to stay while they all get changed instead of the activity - I don't want to I've just spent an hour persuading dd out of pj's into uniform!!

Is there a lot of overweight parents at the school? Maybe it's a hamfisted attempt to instill a love of exercise amongst the obese parents, or some kind of joint initiative with the local public health department to save the NHS some cash?

Our school have banned parents from going into the school corridors or classrooms after the first term of year 1 because it was too chaotic to have everyone in there. There is no way they can make you do it so just don't do it 😉

That's just nuts. Ours was like your old routine except that parents weren't allowed to cross the "yellow line" so no parents went near the school.

I'd hate to do that unless there was either a coffee bar or shots available in the classroom neither of which is appropriate so that's me out. Who makes sure all the parents are signed in / out? Who make sure some stranger doesn't wander in? How awful!

My son wouldn't be able to cope with that number of people in the classroom. If he was in a school that was doing that, I would be bringing him in late every day.

I would talk to as many other parents as you can and all complain about it together - all go down to the head teacher's office en masse so she can't pretend that you are the only one complaining.

Or, if you can get away with going in just before the tambourine goes, I would wait with the other parents outside until the last possible minute and all go in together at the last minute, all saying that you're sorry but you find that having such a disturbing start to the day both for yourself and your DC really isn't working so thank you for the opportunity but as you have all given it a term and had it demonstrated so conclusively that it it creates such a bad start to the day and that you all obviously have to think of your DC so from now on the group of you will just wait outside and usher the DC in just before the tambourine goes. And if there's even a quarter of the class that do it but better with more than half I reckon that there will be too many of you for them to complain.

And if they do, a cheery 'no thank you that's kind but it doesn't work for us and this does. Bye' as you all walk out should do the trick!

Nothing useful to add, but thanks for the description. It all sounds marvellously batshit

Some teachers just don't want to engage with the practicalities of modern family life.

On the other end of the spectrum, the only time I have been in my daughter's classroom was for her parent teacher meeting! And there wasn't anyone else in there!!

This is madness and what a silly delay to the start of the school day!

We used to do something similar - thirty parents in a classroom, thirty children, plus siblings. I also had toddler and baby. Baby had either had feed and now needed change, or needed feed and I was engorged. Nightmare. Some teachers need a short secondment into the real world.

I think someone would end up wearing the fucking tambourine... what a crock of shite!! I have never heard such crap! Seriously! I would be looking for a new school. I definitely would not engage with such nonsense. I've work to be at for a start, and even if I didn't it's an arse!

Thank god our primary school actively dissuades parents from going into the school once the little ones are used to going. They don't prevent them but they encourage them to support this little bit of independence going into school in the morning, and I agree. No need to do anything but drop and run!

Im not sure but having lots of parents and younger siblings on the premises every day before school officially starts could be an insurance and security problem. Our school very much encourage drop and run as having so many parents, grandparents, childminders and younger siblings wandering around unaccounted for is not permitted for these reasons. Parents are not allowed in their kids classrooms before or after school unless they sign in at reception.

I'd suggest it drops to never .

Not even slightly feasible for working parents. Yanbu..

How ridiculous.
"Our" school have a 10 minute window for dropping off. Kids assemble (vaguely) in playground. Bell goes, classroom door opens (onto playground) - TA stands at doorway and each child's responsible adult sends child into classroom. Bell goes, doors are shut. Latecomers have to be dropped off via a different door and signed in by parent/responsible adult.

If there are activities in which parents/carers are encouraged to participate, an email is sent round giving advance warning, and there is a limit on how many adults are allowed into each classroom.

OMG I would have HATED that!!

Bad enough having to go into the cloakroom with them. I would have much preferred to drop at the door but felt I needed to go in to protect them from being shoved about or whacked over the head (accidentally) was book bags - by the other parents who were oblivious to anyone but their own precious child!

I hope I would have been brave enough to do what confuugled1 suggests and try to muster up a group of parents to join me in staying outside till 8.54 - I reckon the group would grow and grow!

Let the keen ones wake and shake to their hearts content but count me out thank you very much!

I'd have thought actually that many adults milling around in school is a child protection issue. That's one of the reason our primary school sought to limit how many parents came in. How do they know everyone leaves? How do they know every one of them actually is connected to a child? I would so not be happy about that!

My children have always caught a bus/taxi to school so there's no way I could have gone in with them. I'd have hated my children to feel that their's was the only Mum not there. Also hate the idea that just anyone could walk in. Are all parents CRB checked or whatever it's called now?

WTAF!!! There is absolutely no way that you'd catch me doing this.What is it with all these touchy feely primary school HT's now adays?So glad that mine are at secondary now!

I'm back, just finished work and read thread.
Only infant years have to participate in the madness!
No one is signed in or out. I take my ds to a playgroup at another local school where we enter through school reception and no one signs in or out there either.
I totally understand the safeguarding concerns but not so much the fire concerns. If it were a supermarket or leisure centre there would be no record of who was present to double check everyone was out?
I'm so pleased other posters have commented that they are subject to similar routines as I was beginning to think we might be part of a social experiment to see how long we'll comply for.
We are small school and as far as I know there are no childminders who served the school.
People with more than one child in the infants seem to stick with the youngest child.
My dd would be upset if I missed it everyday. Currently we are late 2/3 times a week and get there right at the end but that's because we don't get up early enough.

Currently we are late 2/3 times a week and get there right at the end but that's because we don't get up early enough.

I'd worry about addressing THAT for now TBH.

Haha I am so glad I don't have to do that! Can't imagine my mum doing that either when I was in school, she'd say no way.

Just refuse to do it, drop and run. I am so fucking glad there's none of that nonsense over here, DD will probably go on the bus to school when she starts this autumn, failing that I'll be dropping and running until she knows the way herself.