school cancelling lessons to watch England World Cup

[Balcanoona]

Is this right? It’s the match on Monday cancelling lessons from 1pm so the students can watch the Iran vs England game

MintGreen
That's awful.

100% at attendance awards are stupid anyway. What's the point in congratulating a child for not being ill, or worse congratulating a child for coming into school when unwell so they can infect everyone else and likely cause other people to be unwell, and subsequently absent.

How bloody ridiculous!

I bet that gets changed!

Brefugee I couldn't agree more. I am genuinely shocked at how so many posters on here seem to think that the football is more important than the issues around the tournament.

Does nobody care about the overwhelming vote in Iran last week to execute up to 15000 protesters? And the fact that girls and young women who are deemed to be virgins will be raped first as their laws say you cannot execute a virgin? Some of those raped and executed will be the same age as pupils at secondary schools screening the matches. Are goals more important than their lives?

I utterly despair at the lack of morality so blatantly clear on this thread.

The England team are collectively despicable for not refusing to play Iran. They shouldn't be in Qatar anyway.

We were horrified that DS, in year 2, was going to be allowed to watch the football.

The parents banded together and instead they are having a special class on differential equations and Oxbridge entrance requirements.

This will ensure that their educational development remains strong in lieu of lessons about 8 times tables and what lives in the jungle.

😂😂

One of my favourite school memories is watching the 2002 World Cup in the hall with everyone! It doesn't happen that often, it's a nice thing for them to do. There's only one game (so far) in school time, anyway.

Tbf the Euros matches were all in the evening and lots in the holidsys, so the issue didn't arise.

I hate this and would complain. It happens when you have a football-mad head teacher usually. Especially annoying this time as it SHOULDN'T BE IN FUCKING QATAR.

This will be the only game that kicks off before 3pm (even if England 'go all the way'...which I doubt). It's a couple of lessons and, putting my kid hat on for a minute, I think I would have suddenly developed a fever the night before if I was going to miss the game.

I hate football but anythign that get s kids into sport and not socialo media is good

do you have mobile phone?
Car?
TV?

Some of the components come from China well know for liberal human rights

Unfortunately watching elite sport is known to deter people from participating in sport, because it sets the bar high and teaches nothing about the physical and social feelings actually playing generates.

Watching elite sports on TV is one of the causes of our declining sports participation.

I’m a MASSIVE football fan but this is completely ridiculous

not all kids like football.

londongals I don't have a television. My car is third hand and uses mostly European components. My phone was made in Scandinavia. HTH.

Samcro You are right, neither of mine watched it when their schools showed it. Both have said that if they were fans they would be boycotting it this time.

Very proud of them.

do you have mobile phone?
Car?
TV?
Some of the components come from China well know for liberal human rights

don't be That Person.I'll bite though. Yes, i do. They have become pretty much indespensible. In fact i have 2, one from work which is an iPhone. I have tried as much as possible to push back on that, even offering to use my ancient Samsung but it doesn't meet their tech requirements. So i periodically complain about that.
I use a 2nd hand Samsung. My next phone will be a 2nd hand Samsung. I, and many others, do what i can to avoid more new phones being made. we are swimming against the tide. But we persist. Most likely a lot of my Samsung phone components were made in either China or in the DMZ in Korea by north Koreans. I can't avoid that.

Car - yes. I have a nice German car. I hate having to have a car but there it is. I campaign vociferously for our public transport to be more widespread and available and where possible use it to get to work even though it more than doubles my journey time. It is what it is.

you know - and you know this well - we can't avoid everything.

But we can avoid the world cup and Qatar and be very very noisy about that.

YANBU. The school shouldn’t encourage supporting the Qatari regime. I think they should have an assembly on why they aren’t watching it.

If the World Cup was in a country with decent human rights and England was in the final or possibly semi final then it would be nice for them to watch it at school, an historic moment!

For me it isn't so much the Qatar regime (although i despise them) but the corrupt way it was awarded to a country with a) no tradition of football and b) such appalling human rights and c) no plan for sustainability

Plus Iran. FUCKING IRAN. Are there girls who are going to be expected to watch?

This thread is so depressing. My son and partner love watching big sporting events together but they will not be watching this world Cup and I'd be really annoyed if the school offered children the chance to watch it. I'd rather my child learnt about what was morally right and I'm very disappointed that England are playing in the world Cup at all.

Lessons are being cancelled to have a football match screening? That’s outrageous. All the parents making the effort to get their kids to school and for the tv to be put on.

Well they could have cancelled home work

The amount of films my DC seem to watch, I doubt it would be any different to a normal day!

I guess they have taken the view that for kids and staff alike that it is better to make an event of it for those that want to watch to miss a couple of lessons than to risk hoards calling in sick for the whole day to be able to watch.

Further as we have seen from prior tournaments it promotes a sense of community and well being.

What a fantastic idea. Hope all schools participate

Like another poster I remember a world cup where the time difference meant one of the knock out rounds meant if we watched it would go on until 10. School said people needed to be at school by 10.30 or half an hour after penalties if it went to penalties.

Notwithstanding your valid points about the hr issues girls do watch and play football too.

I think if a school also discusses the human rights issues surrounding it too then that's good too.