2 emails within an hour of each other re strikes and holidays

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So my kids school have sent 2 emails out this morning, 1 regarding closure dates for strikes

Fair enough I get it

Then in the next email less than an hour later - the importance of not taking your kids out during term time for holidays and them getting behind!!!

I mean the mums wattsapp is going wild

I think they have a cheek to say that!!

YANBU they're just taking the piss I think, hopefully in a jokey way, to illustrate that they know that the strikes are damaging and they don't support them but their hands are tied.

Ha that's ridiculous. I think it just suggests they don't GAF! They're just peddling BS.

Missing a couple of days of school for whatever reason is neither here nor there.

When school reopened after the lockdown I received a text message from the school reminding me that we shouldn’t send children into school if they seemed unwell …. Less than an hour later at school pick up I was handed a letter telling me that as my son had had 2 days off since they returned two weeks before (because he seemed unwell) his attendance was at an unacceptable level.
basically teachers have no respect for parents and some of them aren’t very bright.
however I support any one’s right to strike and will suck it up if our school is closed for striking staff

Well, difference being during a strike everyone is off, for a holiday it is only your kids so they miss out on what everyone else does.

Striking isn't great for teachers, they just have to cover more in less time. Whereas a holiday the class just carries on and your child is behind.

Teachers don’t fine you for holidays, the council/ government does.

I don’t understand your confusion, they are 2 completely separate issues.

1. Informing you of the upcoming strike, which is totally out of your headteacher’s control, giving you as much notice as possible to arrange childcare etc if necessary. We’ve had s similar letter to say they don’t know yet if the school will need to close but they wanted to give us enough notice.
2. Reminding you of the importance of regular school attendance. I’m a teacher and low attendance is a real issue at the moment. Again, in many ways it is out of the school’s hands, but they have to remind you and they have to send these letters.

The school may not know what teachers are striking until nearer the day. Perhaps the letter is premepting some people seeing it as a day off , when the day is as normal.

The teachers don’t deal with attendance. They are following government regulations. Don’t blame them.

When l was teaching, we had an attendance officer who dealt with all of this. I never got involved.

The timing of the emails is unfortunate!

You do realise it wasn't a teacher who sent either the text or the letter?

Neither was sent in disrespect either.

Oh goodie, another teacher bashing thread. I mean we were overdue one, it must be all of five minutes since the last one 🙄

OP as PPs have pointed out, teachers don't make the rules re attendance and they don't fine parents if those rules aren't adhered to.

And a child missing days of learning to go on holiday, learning that their classmates have undertaken without them, will obviously put them at a disadvantage.

But don't let that get in the way of a good old teacher bash, eh?

You do realise it wasn't a teacher who sent either the text or the letter?

Imagine a teacher sitting there and painstakingly texting op personally😂😂

They are triggered automatically.

Schools are given targets and actions re child attendance. It's not set by the school/teachers which is why they are often applied on such a Draconian way.

The second email was probably an automated badly timed email.

Yeah, this. Yet another tedious thread having a go at teachers, and employees in general using their right to strike.

Another teacher bash - yawn. Must try harder, OP!

I think the issue for the school is that attendance percentages including absence for holidays is monitored by OFSTED and whilst the school can't literally force your children in whilst it's open - they need to be seen to be doing something. So if OFSTED visit and school attendance percentages are lower than they should be - it will be in the school's favour that they constantly remind parents .

OP can you not see what’s being done here?

The school, have sent those emails in close succession on purpose. And they’ve got you and all of the other parents right where they want you! They’ve let you know your kids will miss school due to the strikes and then followed it with warnings about term-time holidays. Just as they wanted parents have fallen into the trap and will now be ranting SO THE TEACHERS CAN STRIKE BUT I CANT GO TO MALLORCA IN JUNE?!

Support your children’s teachers, OP. Their education is suffering already, not because of the strike action.

lmao the kind of people who are allowed to become parents... poor teachers

I mean the mums wattsapp is going wild

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I wonder, would the wild Mums on the group say whatever they are saying to the teachers or the head teacher? No, I thought not. Pathetic.

*touchy

One is something the teachers are doing to improve their working conditions and (hopefully) retain teachers.

One is something that is enforced by the council.

Not that hard to comprehend really, is it? Perhaps you and your WhatsApp group need to calm down a little and have a think about things before heating each other up.

That’s strange, I’m not a teacher and don’t know any yet it’s your approach that bores me to tears.

Ugh this is why I was never part of the "mum's WhatsApp" 🙄

Teachers aren't striking for a jolly. They won't get paid while they strike. They are doing it to try and protect the future of education and teaching, it's a largely selfless act which will affect them negatively (unpaid days off) and is for the greater good for the children. Anything the kids miss due to teachers striking will be across the board and a plan made to make it up.

Parents taking their kids out of school in term time for a jolly is entirely different! And it is infuriating that the mum's WhatsApp group don't get it.

No wonder this country is in such a fucking state.

Possibly a stab at damage control - trying to get ahead of the parents who will use the strokes as an argument to justify taking their kids on holidays / days out during school time…