Bitter about missing school occasions

[Rhinothunder]

Just really beginning to hate this government. Parents have been banned from sports days at all our local schools as they say its too much risk and they can't police lots of bubbles as required by govt guidelines.

We've also been banned from assemblies and shows even if can hold them outside. I haven't seen a single thing yet in my 6 year olds school career. We saw so much for the older ones and was a real high for us and the kids.

Meanwhile on the news we are watching g7 encourages, football officalls and z list celebrities swan round the world and mass together.

It's so galling and I'm getting really angry about it.

Struggling to accept it and thinking of how I can take action.

@Pheasantplucker2 my daughter just got back from PGL, they are happening. Maybe talk to school about it

The way children have been treated has been awful.

I can send my child in to catch chicken pox and could end up in hospital (my eldest did)

But yet covid they have to be locked up in a house for a week. For a virus that doesn’t affect them and all vulnerable are now vaccinated.

Please someone explain to me why our government are treating the young so bad.

There are 6schoolchildren there are 7m schoolchildren in the uK. The impact of all of them having parents coming together for school events is obviously way more than the sporting events.
Especially where they all had two negative tests before they entered.

[quote Hesma]@Pheasantplucker2 my daughter just got back from PGL, they are happening. Maybe talk to school about it[/quote]
Well, a PGL trip can hardly be organised now, for this term.
Apart from anything else, they're fully booked at the best of times, and anyway, such trips take a huge amount of organisation.

Just watching the news. 60,000 fans off to Wembley, but no sports day for us! Awesome.

Totally agree. Children have been forgotten about throughout this, it’s disgusting.

And if anyone comes along to tell me ‘I hated sports day anyway, so I’m not bothered’ or ‘we are in a pandemiiiiic you know’ just seriously fuck off. Lock yourself inside and let everyone else just enjoy life.

Seriously, I think being bitter about something so trivial is almost obscene to be honest.

I didn't have parents attend one such event in my entire education. It made exactly zero difference.

If missing school plays and sports days is the most you have to complain about in the middle of a pandemic I think you should be counting your lucky stars not whinging about it and demanding 'something must be done'

As you can see- ^^ it didn’t matter to wheresmymojo so therefore shouldn’t matter to anyone else. And we are ‘in a pandemic’- code on this website to bring out the competitive misery.

Race to the bottom, pathetic country.

If missing school plays and sports days is the most you have to complain about in the middle of a pandemic

Is it even still classified as a pandemic or is it endemic now? Either way we're certainly not in the middle of it. Vast majority of adults are now vaccinated... we were told we needed to flatten the curve, protect the NHS, just need to vaccinate the elderly and vulnerable...now the goal posts have changed again

Pandemics are global, not UK specific. Globally we are in the middle of it.

Sorry but both me and my DH were unable to work for most of the past 15 months.

We're nearly bankrupt.

Forgive me if I think you losing your shit over missing one or two sports days is a bit ridiculous.

It's also interesting in the context of another thread about the lack of resilience in younger people today.

How can we expect them to be resilient when, as parents, we can get so overwrought over a couple of missed sports days and assemblies?

I mean, of all the things there are to be upset about at the moment it seems bizarre to pick these.

Either you have nothing worse to worry about in which case you're so unbelievably privileged that this thread could be the basis of a bloody comedy skit or you do have worse things to worry about in which case, perhaps put your energy towards that instead of this?

But we have to protect the NHS and protect each other zzzzzzzzzzzzz

You're not wrong, it's becoming farcical now, if British people weren't so reserved they probably would have rioted by now.

@wheresmymojo

Pandemics are global, not UK specific. Globally we are in the middle of it.

Sorry but both me and my DH were unable to work for most of the past 15 months.

We're nearly bankrupt.

Forgive me if I think you losing your shit over missing one or two sports days is a bit ridiculous.

But things that happen to us in life are not measured by such extremes. Just because your leg hadn't been amputated doesn't mean you can't be sad about breaking your ankle. Just because your life isn't falling apart doesn't mean you can't be sad about missing important milestones in your kids lives.

That’s totally awful wheresmymojo but my point stands. Competitive misery and racing to the bottom is helping no-one.

This is just one aspect of the impact on children. We are going to have one messed up generation and for what? Genuinely what? I couldn’t give a shit about it anymore, please don’t anyone going on about the NHS or whatever meaningless sound bites you’ve swallowed. The whole charade is utterly pathetic and massively disproportionate to the risk. In 30 years we will look back and wonder what the hell we were doing.

Forgive me if I think you losing your shit over missing one or two sports days is a bit ridiculous

They haven't just missed that though. That's just one example of a whole host of things they've lost and were supposed to have had back by now

And I'm not sure who is 'losing their shit'

@wheresmymojo

It's also interesting in the context of another thread about the lack of resilience in younger people today.

How can we expect them to be resilient when, as parents, we can get so overwrought over a couple of missed sports days and assemblies?

I mean, of all the things there are to be upset about at the moment it seems bizarre to pick these.

Either you have nothing worse to worry about in which case you're so unbelievably privileged that this thread could be the basis of a bloody comedy skit or you do have worse things to worry about in which case, perhaps put your energy towards that instead of this?

They are incredibly resilient. More than adults in many cases.

It doesn’t mean that now things are opening up children shouldn’t be the priority.

It’s normal to think of your dc first not so much to think of yourself as an adult - unless it’s to provide or do something on behalf of dc.

I’m surprised that it’s not always the case on here and hasn’t been for pandemic.

Totally agree with you OP!

I thought it was the teaching unions drivjbg this, not the govt?

@wheresmymojo you have no idea if the OP or others on here are also struggling to make ends meet because they've lost jobs or been on furlough. That's because people can be sad about and for our kids about what they've missed / lost as well as being upset, angry about all the other shit people have been through over the last 18m.
Whataboutary doesn't help anyone.

@MiaowMiaow99

I thought it was the teaching unions drivjbg this, not the govt?

Driving what? But no, they're not "driving" anything.

@wheresmymojo

Seriously, I think being bitter about something so trivial is almost obscene to be honest.

I didn't have parents attend one such event in my entire education. It made exactly zero difference.

If missing school plays and sports days is the most you have to complain about in the middle of a pandemic I think you should be counting your lucky stars not whinging about it and demanding 'something must be done'

You obviously still have a chip on your shoulder about your parents not attending these things if you’re bringing it up years later.

This is not a game of misery top trumps, we all have out own crosses to bear but we are adults and have to get on with it.

Our kids are all massively resilient but I’d still give up the things that I’m able to do like meals out etc to give them back a bit of normality.