AIBU to think school should have called me?

[tootiredtoadult]

So, I will take my error in all this but I feel school should have called me or kept DD age 8 inside or out at least shaded the kids.

To cut a long story short,y DD school have had. A sports week this week, but due to the rather British wet weather it has been cancelled, and all activities off, we received an email to say that they would be doing sports today.

In the usual morning rush and remembering pe kit at the last minute I packed her off to school.

She has come home sunburnt to hell. I asked "have you been outside ALL day" she confirmed they had, I asked "did they ask if you had sun cream on"? She confirmed "they asked and I said No, they offered me some but I told them I'm allergic to that one"
(well done for realising that DD)

The school clearly knew the kids needed sun screen as they were offering it out, I feel at this point they should have called me for my views on what they should do (I would have taken some into school for her) I wouldn't want her to miss out but I feel they should have kept her inside or at very least, put the kids in the shade where possible.

I appreciate I should have put cream on her this morning but I wasn't aware they were going to be out in baking sun all day doing sports.

Should I approach the school about this? WWYD?

U2 you are missing my point. I'll explain to u slowly. Please read carefully.

I'm really not!

I was explaining why it is harder to do this than a parent with only a couple of children.

You think that needs explaining? I think we are all capable of working that out for ourselves.

I don't know what you think I am misunderstanding.

dottie What is appropriate for a nursery is very different for an 8 year old.

And nurseries have way higher adult staff ratios.

Yabu.

We live abroad where the climate is much hotter & sunnier...for at least 6 months of the year. It is the parents responsibility to put suncream on their kids at the start of the day and the kids need some in their locker/bag to reapply throughout the day...

You can’t expect a teacher to apply suncream on 20 kids every day for half of the year...

There is, however a “no hat no play” rule during break time and sports practices...if you don’t have a hat then you stay inside...

My DC school news letter reminds parents to send their kids in with sun cream in hot weather. There's only so much you can really expect them to do. Especially as they did take the extra measure to have sun-cream available which would have been fine if there weren't special circumstances i.e. allergy.

Especially as she has this allergy, I think you will just need to try and keep a little bottle in the book bag in summer.

It's not necessarily that easy to "just call" a parent, actually. The class teacher hasn't exactly got you on speed dial.
I once had a parent who had a right go at me because their child missed swimming as he had forgotten his kit. She was livid, because "all I had to do was call her." However, the child didn't tell me he didn't have his kit until I had 30 kids lined up at the door, on a tight time schedule to get to the pool, changed and in the water for an all-too-brief session. "Just calling her" would have meant leaving the class waiting at the door, running some distance to the office, logging on to a pc to track down her number, calling and waiting for her to (maybe) pick up, (and if no answer, then what? Try all the other back-up numbers?) explaining the situation, running back to a class who could be running wild. Do we then wait for the mum to turn up? (Having has to go home from work, find the kit and bring it to school?)
And then, the whole class would be late for swimming and have their precious water time curtailed.
All too often, parents view schools' actions through the eyes of people dealing with only one child. We have to manage hundreds. It is sometimes simply not practical to do tasks which might seem straightforward, but in practice are more complicated, and with implications for all the other kids.

It does depend on what your dd said of course - if she said "I cannot use that one" she could have given the impression to her teacher she had her own. The problem is of course that they should not have been outside that long anyway, I burn in under an hour even in factor 50, I'm a bundle of fun on holiday! Luckily my DD's took after their dad

All the kids at our school got burnt to a crisp on sports day on thursday, my DS has been ill since. No suncream or shelter offered.. just kids baking in the sun for hours. It hasn't changed since I was a kid, surely some cheap bottles of suncream and a marquee could be provided.

All the kids at our school got burnt to a crisp on sports day on thursday, my DS has been ill since. No suncream or shelter offered.. just kids baking in the sun for hours. It hasn't changed since I was a kid,

Why did you not provide suncream

surely some cheap bottles of suncream and a marquee could be provided.

Erm yes. By the PARENTS

Cheap bottles of sun cream? You can just imagine the outcry about all the allergies and rashes flaring up with that.
And who is meant to apply the suncream to 30 kids? One teacher? Who is supposed, with her other hand, to be running the sports activities?
Jesus, some of you have no IDEA about the logistics of running school events. It's not all about your child. If you want suncream on your child, apply it!