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?

This is classic Londoncentricity!

Please don't blame this numptiness on London.

Tbh the simple answer to ops concern is less Draconian uniform rules. I went to a STATE selective school, No1 state school in my GCSE year, beat Eton the year one of the Prince's Ron their exams (just saying good school with good results).
If we didn't want our blazer on, we took it off and left it on our chair/peg etc. If we didn't want a jumper on, likewise. Blouses were long sleeved in winter and short sleeved in summer, no tie in summer. Thick socks in winter, ankle socks in summer. No need to make students wear every piece of uniform just or prove who the boss waa

Scotland weather is very different to that in England for example. My dad was there for several weeks this summer. Whilst we had a heatwave they had lots of wind rain and clouds. They have always gone back to school in August.

12 degrees in my bit of the Highlands today @silver3 😁 debating popping the heating on.

My DD lives in the Highlands and we are close to the border. I can assure you OP that there is no consistent August heatwave in either of these places. If I had to bet on when the best weather of the year was going to be, it would be late May, and there's sometimes a bit of a warmer spell in September, but there is no really reliable pattern. But August is frequently wet and cold.
It is warmish here at present its true- low 20s - but nothing like as hot as in South East England. I'm off to visit my DD next week and looking at the forecast am packing jeans and jumpers rather than shorts.

@silver3 have you ever actually been to Scotland?

We've definitely no heatwave in the Highlands but it's not due to rain this week which is great.

I'm feeling quite cheery for the kids actually, the first few weeks of term are supposed to have a big outdoor learning focus and it will be lovely for them not to be soaked the whole time. 😂

OP you keep coming back and repeating the same incorrect assumptions as if they are somehow justified. Is it any wonder you're getting these responses?

Again, if you're genuinely interested in this, educate yourself.

Please don't blame this numptiness on London.

Yes - bearing in mind how many people move to London from somewhere else, the concept of different weather should be familiar to most Londoners.

@eggandonion

I'm Irish - I always feel sorry for the poor English kids in school in July!

And the secondary school ones stuck in school in June.

Is this time for the "Edinburgh is further west than Cardiff" mind-blowing fact?

WTF
I know if you divide the country into West /East by drawing a line south from Inverness parts of the Solway coast end up in the East.

I guess it's because lots of maps straighten the Island up so it fits on paper / screens better.
But still it's a bit

If you must know, I wasn’t even born in the UK

You appear to have taken on the Southern/London attitude to the rest of the UK like a duck to water though.

But never mind the kids, OP. The wee haggis’ are fair sweltering round ma bit in this Scottish heat wave. They’re lying in the fields with their wee tongues hanging out, panting and looking the picture of misery.

Maybe we could have a #SaveTheHaggis campaign instead?

I don’t know why some people feel the need to be unpleasant or defensive. As I said -

1. I am not only talking about today, but August in general.

2. Obviously weather varies across the UK, but I hadn’t realised by how much.

3. If people are telling me the average weather in Scotland in August is in the teens, then obviously, you know better than me. I just didn’t think it would be that dramatically different, as a trend, that’s all.

@Butchyrestingface

If you must know, I wasn’t even born in the UK

You appear to have taken on the Southern/London attitude to the rest of the UK like a duck to water though.

But never mind the kids, OP. The wee haggis’ are fair sweltering round ma bit in this Scottish heat wave. They’re lying in the fields with their wee tongues hanging out, panting and looking the picture of misery.

Maybe we could have a #SaveTheHaggis campaign instead?

😂 won't someone think of the haggises (haggi?)

OP I was a school pupil in Scotland and a teacher in SE England. Teaching in July heatwaves was horrendous. Some days it was too hot for the children to concentrate inside so we had afternoons outside under the trees 'reading a book'
I thought this was going to be another bloody CV thread. Good on Nicola for trying to get schools back without a fuss.

I wish we got south england temperatures here in Dublin, school or no school. Its 16° and very, very dull.

@999caffeineplease

This is so funny.

YABU to think the start of term in Scotland should be moved from when it always is because you've made a guess at the temperature based on what it's like hundreds of miles away.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

This is the most London centric post ever! op you are very amusing.

Or the poor wee bairns running around in their full kilts,sporran and tartan in this weather

Poor lambs

Butchyrestingface
The wee haggis’ are fair sweltering round ma bit in this Scottish heat wave. They’re lying in the fields with their wee tongues hanging out, panting and looking the picture of misery.

LMFAO this comment has to be the best on this thread IMO
God love our wee haggis' though. Apparently they are migrating from the "sweltering cities" in their thousands to the highlands

We moved from NW England to NE Scotland in November. This year has been the first summer I have enjoyed for years. No sweaty nights, no hiding in the shade on days out, and I've got a lovely tan. It's been like turning global warming back 30 years.

This thread is so funny! How did you get to adulthood without ever having worked out that Scotland rarely gets 30 degree heatwaves at the same time as the south of England? Have you never watched a weather forecast in your life?

Do you not think that if Scottish children regularly roasted through August there would have been changes?

Either the term dates would have changed or schools would have air con?

Did you honestly think no-one gave a shit about poor, roasted children?

And yes, to the pp who asked, I have been to Aberdeen once and I have to say it was sheet rain for three days solid. I went to the Highlands and could barely see two metres in the bloody fog. And by Edinburgh castle my DD was blown over in a freezing gale.

But they doesn’t mean I should presume that Scotland has permanently shit weather does it? I was just unlucky those times.

I would have not have thought it would be half the temperature at this time of year.

Half the temperature?! Does the temperature in London stop at 0 C then?! Half the temperature of 30 C would be about -150 C, you muppet!

Who would have thought?

Literally anyone with two brain cells to rub together.