To ask the teacher to change the live call time

[namechangestory]

DD is in reception and is attending school as we are both key workers (I WFH, DH goes out to work). There is only 3 others from his class and most of his friends are staying at home.

The class teacher is running a zoom call every day so the class can all see each other and listen to a story. The problem is it clashes with pick-up time so DD cannot join and she misses out on seeing her friends who all see each other on the video call every day.

AIBU to ask the teacher to change the time slightly so DD can attend? Push back by half an hour so we are home?

@MrsDev1980

I'm a teacher and absolutely would not mind that suggestion being put to me. The teacher can only explain if it's not possible or they may just not have thought about the fact that your dc can't take part. The teacher might be able to accommodate a change of time on at least one day. Either way, if you don't ask youll never know

Thank goodness! Some common sense...

The online sessions are clearly intended for children who are not attending school

Your child has the benefit of on site education and socialisation. The teacher is already working out of hours. The alternative is that the zoom happens in school time. Your DD will also not really be able take part, and will not have her teachers' presence either.

PPs^Stop encouraging the OP to be a dickhead!

Haven't read all the replies but if your
school is anything like mine- we very deliberately ensure the children in school are excluded from the class zoom. There's 6 of them, they've got me all day and they've got each other.
The children at home will have been told school is shut and they're staying home to stay safe. I don't want them a) seeing their friends are at school and being upset or jealous or b) seeing their friends are at school and worrying they're at risk.
The zoom call isn't for your child.

Pick DC up earlier or later. You need to adjust, not the teacher. I don’t really understand why you can’t do this?

YANBU. The teacher must be aware that 3 pm would inevitably be difficult for children in school, and fixing the call for a time that excludes them puts her on iffy ground given that many if not most of the children in school are vulnerable due to SEN and disability.

@Arobase

YANBU. The teacher must be aware that 3 pm would inevitably be difficult for children in school, and fixing the call for a time that excludes them puts her on iffy ground given that many if not most of the children in school are vulnerable due to SEN and disability.

Most children in school are key worker children.

YABU because your kid shouldn't even be in school...

OK I'm going to go against the grain, are they doing live lessons during day?

Ours does the last dial in at 2.30 and it's just a catch up, any issues etc and then kids are allowed to chat til 3pm. I'm surprised this isn't when the teacher is doing it instead of in her own time.

@Feelingconfused2020

You should be keeping your child at home if you are WFH

No. That's not what keyworker provision is for. Some of us can't work effectively while offering childcare to a 5 year old. If we are not deemed keyworkers we have to work something out with our workplace, do our best or be furloughed. If we are considered keyworkers that's what school is open for. Would you like it if your child's teacher couldn't deliver lessons because she/he was caring for his own children?

I am a teacher at home but I'm still sending my youngest two into school because I cannot teach my live lessons and care for them appropriately. My oldest child is more independent and is at home.

Of everyone who couldn't work effectively from home whilst providing childcare/homeschooling to a small child...then there'd be a fuckton more kids in school...

I don’t understand this. Please could you explain what the timings are?

@Arobase, et al.
The online stuff is what they have put in place to prevent exclusion for the kids that are not in school. If a child is in school you don't need to access the online learning, as you will have had something far superior - in a room with an actual teacher.

Tbh in any case, zooms for 15 - 20 reception age kids are not going to be the great social event you imagine.

Our school zoom is at 2pm. Sometimes the kids in class join in, sometimes not, they are getting on with their work with the TA. They are Y6 and there are only 4-5 of them actually in school.

Posts like this make me so glad I didn't go ahead with my PGCE

It's a bit confusing what you wrote but my understanding is that after looking after children in the classroom, the teacher makes a Zoom call to other children LFH to read the story? Presumably,the same story she has read to the kids in the classroom?If that's the case,YABVU as it's not a social meeting,it's just something the teacher wants to do to include those unable to attend the school.

I don't think the zoom call is actually what you are imagining it to be. My DD is in reception, they have a morning and afternoon registration session that the teacher leaves on for 30 minutes so the children can chat to each other. Most of the kids just sit and wave shyly at their friends, there's only the odd child who singles out their friend to chat.
Yesterday's chat between them went something like, hey my dad bought me a scooter! Then around 5 of the others chipped in to say they had 3/4)5 scooters already!
The teacher let's them get on with it but we can hear her in the background talking to those in class, trying to encourage them to come to the screen and say hello to their friends.
She has between7 &11 children in depending on the day of the week.

Jesus. The OP just asked. When a number of people (pretty harshly) said no, she accepted it. And folk are still going for her. 'Parents like you are why I left the profession'. 'Princess'. 'Entitled'. You people are insane. Calm the fuck down.

It might be unreasonable to ask her to change the timing, but you could explain why your DD is unable to attend and then she can make a decision if there’s a time that suits everyone. Don’t know why everyone has to be so arsey about it!

@Feelingconfused2020

Anyone got any ideas how to set up zoom calls with parents you have met at 2m distance for a term at most?

You only need 1 contact to start the process. Do you have any names you could find on Facebook? Anything?

Try not to worry though they are 5 they will recover from this unscathed. In the first lockdown my DD was in year 2 and hated the zoom calls that I arranged anyway. She didn't know what to do on them. Her and her friends don't chat they run around and play together. She's had one this lockdown which was more successful but only because they did a fashion show for each other. They're not "catching up"

Nope, don't have any parent names at all. Only actually know surnames for 3 of the children as there's 2 sets of duplicate first names one of which is my DC so the kids are known by firstnamesurname. Which of course might or might not be mum's name...

Mostly I was pointing out that for this year's reception kids there probably isn't the same level of parent contact to enable zooms being set up outside school hours - and if set up informally would risk reinforcing cliques and excluding DC who hadn't come from the same nurseries...

Sh05
That sounds a bit rubbish.

@Freaksandgeeks

Pick DC up earlier or later. You need to adjust, not the teacher. I don’t really understand why you can’t do this?

School days are timetabled with a drop-off time and a pick-up time. You’re not the first person on this thread to suggest this but I’m baffled by it - what primary school allows parents to pick up whenever they like? They don’t! It’s not childcare, it’s school. Especially during this lockdown the procedures for drop-off and pick-up are tightly controlled You can’t just decide to leave your child for an extra 30 minutes - especially if the teacher is hosting a Zoom, so trying to engage/crowd-control a lot of 4-5 year olds online.