OK I know the answer is probably yes of course I'm unreasonable, because to expect any communications with school to be easy, straightforward and effective is absurd beyond all contemplation but FFS.
To book a place at breakfast club, I have to speak to the breakfast club person. She is only available between 8AM and 8.45AM and she is not reachable by phone, fax or e-mail, only in person.
So if you are a parent who has to be at work by 9, and you live about an hour's commute from home, you may never communicate with this person. It cannot be done via the school because communications between school and breakfast club are apparantly impossible. Never mind the existence of e-mail, phone, fax and flying pigeon, joined up communications are non-existent. Thus you will find it impossible to ever book a place for the wonderful wraparound care the government tells us is its gift to working parents.
I threw a spanner in the works this morning and said "I can't get to the school between those times, how else can I get in touch to book a place for next week?" Consternation, hassle, organisation - anyone would think I'd demanded they move the time and venue of breakfast club the way they carried on.
I know, it won't change. The idea that schools and their breakfast clubs should be able to communicate and parents should be able to book a place without actually presenting themselves at the breakfast club at a certain time, in an era of modern telecommunications, is probably me demanding golden elephants, isn't it?
Am thinking of just not bothering...