To be annoyed they've cancelled my son's nativity

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I'm just so tired of the arbitrary and pointless decisions that rob children and parents of yet more joy.
Last year my son had his nativity play cancelled at preschool. This year, the school (after designating him a shepherd and giving him a line...the excitement!) have cancelled again. Because Covid. Never mind all the pubs, restaurants, Christmas shopping, family parties that all the kids, teachers and parents will be going to.
The nativity is some kind of super spreader event that must be forfeited!
It's not going to make the news, but I'm just so bloody tired of it all. He'll never be this little and innocent again...I tolerated it last year but my patience is gone.
Anyone who wants to be is jabbed, we have lateral flows, it's as safe as it ever will be.
Yet the commercial stuff can go on, but the pure joyful ness of a kids Christmas nativity can't. Just wanted to vent really. No point complaining in real life anymore!

How have my posts posted an hour apart strange!!

There'll be another one next year

@Innocenta you're welcome. Thank you for showing me you don't give a shit about my children or the lack of support I was able to receive from my mental health team during lockdown. Only CEV people matter. You're right.

Our school live streamed it last year. They’ve already brought it forward and changed to a bigger location so we’ll see what the next week brings.

I am delighted that all the school plays etc stopped. Watching mostly bored children sitting on stage did not fill me with joy. It actually made me sad. I wish all schools would stop these forced ' fun' activities forever. Let the kids who enjoy it do it and let the ones don't give it a miss.

Your precious darling will survive not having his nativity. School staff’s health is more important. We have staff off with COVID currently and they are very poorly. Children don’t seem very unwell with COVID generally, which is fortunate. But who cares about teachers, certainly OP!

I think it's madness that things like this are going ahead. Kids this age are superspreaders. Schools are doing nothing to stop spreading infections in to the community. It's much more important that businesses stay open than nativity plays to ahead!

@blusteredbirds

I am delighted that all the school plays etc stopped. Watching mostly bored children sitting on stage did not fill me with joy. It actually made me sad. I wish all schools would stop these forced ' fun' activities forever. Let the kids who enjoy it do it and let the ones don't give it a miss.

I agree with this - although it is not the point of the thread - most nativities are dire and my eldest was very grateful I used to ask for them to have a backstage role!

@Innocenta did your sources that you ‘read’ tell you that?

I get it, you’re CEV, you want to protect yourself by wanting others to fall in line, hence your support for compulsory vaccination however covid isn’t going anywhere, it’s part of life now and life needs to go on.

@Rainbowsew so true! So much more damage is now being done by people ‘staying home to protect the NHS’ like the kids falling behind at school because they can’t see a specialist, people with red flags that needs investigations but don’t want to bother anyone, patients with deteriorating mental health etc but some people are too ignorant to see that!

@Innocenta you're welcome. Thank you for showing me you don't give a shit about my children or the lack of support I was able to receive from my mental health team during lockdown. Only CEV people matter. You're right

I'm glad it's not just me. I found @Innocenta translating people saying they've had enough of over-zealous restrictions and the appalling way in which children have been pushed to the bottom of the pile during the pandemic into them hating disabled people downright silly 😆

I hope your children are doing OK and you've now been able to get the support you needed

@Innocenta of course it's hyperbole to say that questioning restrictions is the same as hating people with disabilities

Your precious darling will survive not having his nativity.

This kind of language is really vile. People are allowed to feel disappointment and frustration.

Yanbu op. My reception class twins are doing a christmas play. One is rudolph which to her is a massive deal. If I dont get to go watch I shall be fucking livid.

Our school is hosting an online nativity this year, the children will still be performing just without an in person nativity. Both mine and the DC's school are doing this.

@SSOYS

Your precious darling will survive not having his nativity.

This kind of language is really vile. People are allowed to feel disappointment and frustration.

I’m not sure if posters don’t like all dc or just their own when they use this language

@TinselTitsAndGlitteryBits

DDs school decided early on that they wouldn't be doing a nativity this year, we've got a lantern walk instead. It's all outside, they're going to sing songs and have a walk through of the nativity scene.

It's better than nothing I suppose, and she's really excited to have her solo - but it's not how it's supposed to be.

Aw that sounds lovely!!

One of the things I’ve realised from covid is that there are some very strange people out there who don’t enjoy life and don’t want others to enjoy theirs, especially not children.

[quote authenticforgery]@Innocenta you're welcome. Thank you for showing me you don't give a shit about my children or the lack of support I was able to receive from my mental health team during lockdown. Only CEV people matter. You're right.[/quote]
Perhaps it would be easier for others to be sympathetic if you didn't dismiss the fact that ableism is a major factor in these discussions?

If you look at the post where I responded to being asked what restrictions I'd want in place, I said that I agree it's very unfair on children, and that I think there should be more balance.

Because that's what I do, in fact, think. I believe we should seek a balance between safety and children's needs.

I hear you. Ours was cancelled because families would only be able to send one parent each, and it would be difficult to choose (probably very outing). But the school fair is allowed to go ahead. I feel that the audience is quite important for the children, performing in front of an audience is good for them. I’m actually ambivalent about whether I need to be in that audience at present (obviously I would love to be, but the absence of an audience is what I’m most annoyed about).

So do you work 'front line' or are you management, @Woohooforwine ?

I find management very believable. Because according to the dozens of doctors I'm aware of on whose testimonies I've based my opinion, it's common for management to be out of touch with how medical staff feel.

It's very interesting that you're so angry and dismissive at the idea that many staff do feel absolutely desperate and almost sick with dread. I'm sorry, but that is the reality. Many are in private therapy for PTSD from earlier waves.

I'm so frustrated that the schools scheduled "as usual" Christmas events when it was completely clear that there would be a winter covid surge and that most of them would need to be cancelled.

Round our way most of the schools are sadly cancelling xmas fairs etc and I'm like why on earth was this all set in motion in the first place? There are other ways to do fund raising events than cramming the entire school in one room.

As to the nativity, I'm sorry you're upset OP. I know many children who hate being in them, and have always thought them a total waste of time, but it's sad the children are disappointed.

It's not just the " play".
It's sitting in rows in a freezing classroom doing sums in your coat because you have to have the door open when it's snowing outside for ventilation, when you're five!
It's not participating in any competitive sport as you're all in bubbles and can't mix with other classes let alone other schools, when the only thing you're good at is sport.
It's going to school everyday without ever being called to the front of a while school assembly for the school to clap you because you got a swimming certificate that you've tried a year to get.
It's having chapped hands because you're asked to wash them fifteen times a day and you're little so don't dry them properly and go out in the cold.
In my case, it's very clearly having a child with autism that can't get diagnosed through school because Covid has backed the service up so much.
Covid is a problem but the collateral damage is huge. All the motivating bits about school are cancelled and all the challenging bits remain. The nativity is just another example of this and quite possible the thing that's sent OP over the edge 😉

In Scotland anyway, adults are supposed to be 2 metres from the children, and 2 metres from each other. So adults gathering would never work under this guidance. We are filming it again as we did last year. Despite measures and being double vaccinated I caught it in class and was very ill, but it didn't spread beyond my class. Their biggest worry is all the staff catching it at the same time and noone being available to teach the kids. So if nativity went ahead but following week there was no staff for 10 days or longer would you be ok with that?

They didn't see the need to cancel the Teaching Awards last night - nice little night out with no masks or distancing for all the teachers and the dear Education Secretary.

But our kids - oh they get dehumanised and referred to as "spreaders" "vectors" - not even human anymore.

Society is fucked and the posters on here with adult children who've had all the milestones and didn't miss out on two fucking years of them... they're just selfish smug twats.