to think these rules re school play make sense

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A letter has just gone out to parents from my nieces school re their forthcoming end of year play (I'm in Ireland so schools breaking up shortly):

When arriving at school hall -

No seats can be reserved in the first six rows
No more than two seats can be reserved by any one group
Five minutes before play is due to start reserved seats must be relinquished if hall is full.

According to my SIL there is considerable moaning about this at the school gates, but it makes sense to her and me and seems generally fair.

AWBU?

Why can't all schools do this? What a great idea!

I think that’s more than fair enough. Sounds like they have had problems with one person trying to keep seats for a whole group which isn’t fair on anyone.

This seems very fair and sensible!

Excellent idea. Well done that school.

The reaction of the parents speaks volumes as to why they need to make rules like this in the first place! Very reasonable.

That’s a great idea, all school should do it

That's a great idea! I wish our school would do that. You get the mums with big friendship groups reserving the whole of the front row. It should be first come first served (with a bit of leeway for anyone with extra nerds who could reserve through teachers).

Brilliant! I wish ours would do this, the ones moaning are the ones who camp out or sling their stuff there the day before to reserve the front rows because they know the