Every year (apart from last year due to Covid) there’s a lantern parade in my town before the Christmas lights are switched on. It’s always a really lovely evening with music, food, bouncy castles, fireworks etc and lots of people come a long way to see the parade. The different primary schools always do a theme for their lanterns and it’s just a really wholesome, Christmassy thing.
Both my dc are at primary school and have been making their lanterns over the last couple of weeks. Last Friday though the town council decided they could no longer endorse the parade this year due to rising Covid numbers and, although they weren’t going to cancel it or tell people they couldn’t go, they were trying to gently discourage people from attending.
Now the school have taken this from the town council and said that it would be irresponsible for the school to be a part of the official parade, they wouldn’t tell children they couldn’t go but sent all the parents another email about Covid rates, symptoms, testing etc. Fair enough. Except they’re also saying that the children cannot take the lanterns that they’ve made at school down to the parade. They normally spend absolutely ages on these lanterns and now all the parents have kids wanting to make another bloody lantern at home in time for the parade. The nearest Hobbycraft is a 40 minute drive away and it’s too late to guarantee anything from Amazon.
AIBU to think that the school are being OTT? Fair enough, they have to officially say that they can’t endorse it but they know that the kids will all go anyway and they already made their bloody lanterns.
I know this is a first world problem but I’m pissed off that I now have to find lantern building equipment and somehow also find time to make one and it to be dry ready for Saturday. So I may be overreacting, slightly.