Being marked absent if not on zoom.

[Whattheactual20201]

I am for school closures and we are in London so school is closed we just got an email to say DC2 school are having a zoom registration every morning at 10 am where all children must attend for a morning debris tray in and half an hour lesson dressed etc.
Rules are
Quiet room, adult present, but no one else.
You must make sure your child is attendance otherwise they will be marked as absent.
Would be impossible for us to do
So will have to accept her being marked as absent on the days we can’t do it. Can this go down as official absence like a usual one would ?

So they NEED an adult present. Mothers, don't be guilted into sacrificing yourself for 'the cause'.
Pandemic guidelines/education situation is often 'wife' and 'mother' work for, I suspect, a lot of us. No economic benefit to women, as is usual. Fuck this!

Hmmmm, I think that the school is being unreasonable. Perhaps you could email the school and m a key it clear why this request might not be possible, just do your best you can't play new mum, teacher, worker, cook, cleaner and chief bottle washer etc. Your priority has to be juggling things in what ever order is right for you, whilst remembering that you are not a teacher.

I don't think it is legal to work from home while looking after young children. It's a safeguarding issue.

This is the funniest thing I've read today! How can you be mumsnet and not have noticed that quite a lot of people have been juggling kids and work since the start of the pandemic?

Did you think 50% of parents quit their job every time we have a lockdown?

Schools need to know that you know your child is on zoom/meet and consent and are about, they don’t need you to sit next to them and participate.
With regards to devices - many schools will timetable so chn with siblings don’t have meets at the same time, many are also lending out devices and or dongles.
They are doing everything they can to support your child to continue learning - and to support parents.
Schools also need to know which children are present and for what so they know what to expect when they come back to school. Some chn made progress during the last lockdown whilst others, as you’d expect, went backwards.
If you are struggling to access the offer for any reason, talk to the school - they might be able to help. The intent is to support children and parents, not torture them (though if you asked my kids it’s the latter!)

Wow, that’s late. We have a 8:45 live registration meetings, school work sessions all day, and a 3pm check in/dismissal meeting. That extra hour plus in the morning would be lovely. (For Reception & Y3.)

I'm pretty sure if lockdown had happened when mine was small and if I had had to stay at home, neither of us would have been up at 0845 to talk to school via the internet. We'd have been working to a completely different timetable. There surely have to be some perks to lockdown. Gosh I would have hated such an intrusion into my home and can imagine us half awake in our dressing gowns.

I wonder how many will comply with this? I'm full of admiration for teachers prepared to organise it but I'd have thought work sheets would suffice.

User1471: " Registration for my child during lockdown 1 was to say hello to teacher on a teams registration post at some point throughout the day. Work was issued daily on teams to be handed in by start of following week and there was usually a teams call on a friday afternoon for a class catch-up - though school has a policy of no cameras on for pupils which I do agree with."

That seems far more sensible.

There is a simple rule to follow now: do your best and communicate clearly.

In your position, I would drop the school an e mail every day saying that your daughter will work that day and help her complete as much work as possible.

If it ever came to it (which it won’t) a school or social worker would get nowhere in court with that unreasonable demand. Schools are (by necessity) playing it by ear right now. If a household completely ignores school, this will be reported and investigated, but if parents explain difficult situations to the school, the school should be supportive.

They're only doing it to keep track of the children and their learning. It has nothing to do with attendance records; all the children have an X.

Two Secondary kids - both have live lessons all day, which includes a register for each lesson, and they aren't available "on catch up". We've had to borrow a laptop and I'm working on my phone and data.

@Whattheactual20201

I have 3 kids including a new born a dog and work from home at the moment with meetings throughout the day 🤣🤷‍♀️

I’m not sure I could make sure that every day for 45 minutes minimum my one DC is on zoom.

Bit if in same room, then your child could be on the zoom call (you're present) but you do admin, emails etc by organising your timetable that from 10 to 1045 you're occupied and calls etc need to be arranged outside of this.

Yes this has an impact, but surely its not that difficult to try it and see if this could work. If itdoesbt work out, after trialling that's the time to the next contact the school. But the benefit of your child touching base with the teacher and their classmates.

Just spoke to my childs teacher who says need to be present, they need to know I'm present but if I need to can go in another room on work call, just keep bobbing in and out whilst they are on zoom.

May have been mentioned but if she has a disability, the school needs to make reasonable adjustment. Ask them how they are going to do that in order to meet her needs and your circumstances.