To feel sorry for Scottish children?

[silver3]

Imagine having to go back to school in this suffocating heat in new blazers and school shoes. I know September can be warm too but, it seems to me, there’s nearly always a heat wave like this in mid-August. My DC have been sleeping in the basement on and off for weeks because their bedrooms are like saunas. Schools don’t always have air-conditioning. AIBU to think Nicola Sturgeon should just push the start of term back to Sept?

There is that as well! Same with news.... mainly broadcast from London.

Works both ways @derxa a few years ago it was absolutely boiling in my town in the Northwest and London was experiencing bad weather ,the weather forecast was going in about what terrible weather we were all having ,it was cracking the flags here I was

@silver3

Sorry yes I should have checked the weather forecasts. Of course I realised Scotland tends to be cooler than London but no, I would have not have thought it would be half the temperature at this time of year. Who would have thought? For instance, Paris is probably equidistant south from London as Edinburgh is north and the weather is much the same more often than not - maybe a few degrees difference, but not much.

It's approximately forty degrees in Paris.

Presume you live in the South of England OP or somewhere even warmer!!!

And how do you know the OP's age to call her a "snowflake"?

What does being called a snowflake have to do with your age?

Well my lot can't wait to be back to school, each in 1 day this week, full time from Monday. They won't have blazers although DS will be getting measured for one as he's going into senior phase where they're expected to wear one. There was talk a few weeks ago that they might not be wearing blazers, ties and be asked to wear clean clothes every day (staff as well) for Covid risk but that doesn't seem to have come to fruition.
And we had lovely weather for most of April/May/June when home schooling that they were able to enjoy in garden and on walks much more than if they'd actually been in school.
Just look at us as your guinea pigs, first off for the exam results fiasco and second to see how return to school affects spread of virus.

Haha its currently 28 degrees here in SW Scotland..... But for last few years, as I work on the South Coast, Aug has been a washout from memory.

'There has been a definite over-reaction from some on this thread though and some kind of weird defensiveness about anything remotely to do with Scotland that seems to run much deeper than anything to do with the weather. That’s how it comes across anyway.'

Yeah it's almost like people get a bit touchy when someone from the country that's been oppressing their nation for hundreds of years starts telling them they should change their country's infrastructure based on idiotic whims. Weird!

Still amused by the ‘schools don’t always have air conditioning’ comment. I have never worked in a school with AC. Goodness me our productivity would shoot right up in June and July!

Haha its currently 28 degrees here in SW Scotland..... But for last few years, as I work on the South Coast, Aug has been a washout from memory. I travelled up in the heatwave on Fri.... It was grim. Scotland is always at least 5 degrees lower than England. Its warm, I have burnt but its a bearable heat.

@DressingGownofDoom

'There has been a definite over-reaction from some on this thread though and some kind of weird defensiveness about anything remotely to do with Scotland that seems to run much deeper than anything to do with the weather. That’s how it comes across anyway.'

Yeah it's almost like people get a bit touchy when someone from the country that's been oppressing their nation for hundreds of years starts telling them they should change their country's infrastructure based on idiotic whims. Weird!

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I feel sorry for Scottish children, yes. Not for this (non) reason though!

There is no heatwave here and they don't have to wear blazers

Is this a wind up? It’s overcast and raining where I am in Scotland. It could be the apocalypse tomorrow and I’ll be driving her to the school gates regardless

It's Scotland 🙄 you have a few days of 'hot weather'... Not exactly weeks. Even then, it has the very odd day at 20c or 24c and I'm really really pushing it to 1 day a year, a very odd day at 28c...but nearly everyday in the summer, on average, it is usually 16c-20c, which isn't hot.
What about schools in England? I'm from Scotland and we moved to London, we have hot weather from April.... The type of heat you would get in August in Scotland. Come July I'm London our kids are at school and often have temperatures up to 37c.
I wouldn't feel sorry for the kids no, and they don't have to wear blazers etc in this heat.

its quite bright and warm where I am in Scotland. Think there was one brief shower. I have my windows open as I'm too hot

😂 do you just tune out when the weather forecast goes north of the border?

Suffocating heat 🤣 aye right. Never happened here
And DS blazer is cotton

@silver3 i couldn't work out where you lived, but as soon as you mentioned it was 35c I knew you couldn't possibly even be from Scotland. I don't think Scotland has seen that temperature ever in its life. From London to glasgow there's 400 miles a difference. Othe weather isn't the same

Another bloody school thread. Quel surprise.

Stop virtue signalling for attention and get a hobby.

Amortentia I was in school around the same time as you. I went to school in Lanarkshire so don't really know if it was a financial thing, the weather or what. But summer uniform just wasn't a thing.

HAHAHAHAHAH! this is Scotland, not Kenya!!! Lol. Believe me our kids won't be sweating and struggling in the heat. Today in the Stirling area the highest temp we had was 23C.
Last time we had heat in the 30s was a few days last year and about 20 days in 2018 during the June heatwave. Lol oh Jeeze!!
Additionally, out schools always go back in August as they finish last week in June. They are only going back one week early this year as they are having an extra week off in October on top of the usual week.
Also, have a look at Google maps and realise central Scotland it approximately 450 miles from London whereas northern scotland is over 650 miles plus north of London. It can be raining out my back garden and sunny out my front. That's how unpredictable Scottish weather is. Oh dear. Maybe a wee geography lesson... No offence lol.

@BuntyCollocks

😂 do you just tune out when the weather forecast goes north of the border?

To be fair, I don’t even watch national weather - it goes, a full 3 minutes on various parts of England and then, and just - some showers in Scotland, with a vague wave across the map, lol

Quite happy for the school term to stay where it is, thank you very much. Mostly because the kids get to enjoy more of the nights staying light till 10/11pm.

Can't beat a Scottish summer - daylight at 4.30am and not properly dark till gone 11.30pm. Fantastic.

My kids go back tomorrow in Scotland, uniform is not compulsory and is being reviewed in October.