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

[JudesBiggestFan]

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!

@SirSamuelVimes

Posted too soon. He's at a private school - can't help but feel that with fee paying parents, schools find a way to make these events go ahead.

My experience of private schools is that it's often much smaller class sizes and often with much more resources such as staffing, rooms such as halls with stages and larger grounds. Even DD's private schools in the middle of a city, rather than rambling rural estate type ones, had far more space and resources available to them than the state school I work at.

My school has one small hall. We recently bought stage blocks to have a make shift stage - but the room is still small so we can have one class if parents in, even without covid. Fitting 6- parents in is already a struggle without social distancing. Outside is a concrete yard on a slope, next to busy main roads - certainly not suitable for an outdoor performance due to the space and the noise.

It's not due to not wanting to do these things that prevents us - it's simply resources and space don't allow it.

The school in question definitely has a lot of space and resources, but my dd's school also has huge amounts of outdoor space and a very involved community who often donate time and resources to the school. If at Oct half term they had said - we want to do nativities this year but we'll have to do then outside, can anyone help? - they would have had people falling over themselves to help out. But they put up the drawbridge at the start of Covid and have refused to attempt any of the things that other schools have done - sports day, for example, or any school trips, any in person parents' evenings or prospective parents' tours. They have just hit the big red "NO" button.