Is your school allowing children to come in late on Monday because of the football?

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I've had an email today saying that primary dc can go in late on Monday if they are staying up to watch the football on Sunday night. They are usually really strict on punctuality and how much they miss by being just 5 minutes late but they have said that being 90 minutes late won't cause them to miss any lesson time!
I recall this for something last year too.
Is your school doing this? Is your child sleeping in on Monday morning after the late night watching football?
I'm not into football at all so I might be biased against this.
Aibu to think that schools shouldn't adjust the school day timings to allow for late nights to watch sport?

At this point in the year everyone is knackered anyway so it won’t make much difference!

neither the school I work in (primary) or DS school (secondary) have mentioned anything but things will be more relaxed next week anyway.

Ds can go in at 10.30am. He'll be in at 8.45am as normal because I need to get on to work.
I wonder if the new HT is a big football fan because no way would the previous HT have allowed this.
I'm with Guy Martin on this one. I wonder if school would allow ds to go in late to watch other sporting events that might be on late? I doubt it.
I also wonder if they are thinking that parents might get drunk and be unfit to drive their dc to school?
What will the school staff be doing for those 90 mins in the morning instead of teaching??

I mean it's hardly like the kids are going to be getting tanked up in the pub watching the football with a raging hangover the next day!

So they go to bed a bit later, big deal.

I feel like this is more for the teachers benefit tbh!

Would they all be having a late start if it was the women's footy?? Doubt it v much.

It's definitely not for teachers' benefit! At my DP's school, all the teachers, including him, have to go in at normal time to be there for the kids who go to breakfast club and the ones who need to come in at normal time because their parents have to get to work. No late start for them.

I think it's ridiculous. Whatever happened to teaching children that actions have consequences? Staying up late to watch the football shouldn't mean you get to have a lie in. Also, notice how it's always men's sport that gets this special treatment

No because being women they’ve thought this through far more sensibly and are playing tonight… 😉🤣

My DD’s school isn’t, as it’s sports day and things are planned. It’s secondary so many kids are no doubt up late every night. I remember during the World Cup in 2002 I think it was, my eldest son’s primary school allowed kids to come in early and watch the game in school. We watched it in a local pub near the school so at half term which was probably around 8am I took DS to school! They also let the kids watch an afternoon game at school. I think once every few years it’s fine, especially this close to the end of term

Yes, ours don’t have to go in til 11. I think it’s a bit dumb for young kids since the majority don’t tend to sleep in even if they’ve gone to bed late. My two 6 year olds will be up by 6:30 even if they go to bed at 10pm.

It's not double standards when they're strict on attendance.

This increases attendance because all the kids who turn up/are dropped off at 10 at least attend, rather than staying absent all day.

It doesn’t start until 20.00, what time do they go to bed usually?!! Most of us will be up at our usual time to go to work - our alarm goes off 05.45 but we will still be watching it.

School have said those arriving at 10.30am won't be marked late either.

Not in Wales, no! 😂😂😂

Yes, however teaching staff still need to be in at usual time at my school for working families so I will have to drop my children off at breakfast club as normal.

What will the school staff be doing for those 90 mins in the morning instead of teaching??

You do realise that some children will be there and if some staff are freed up due to numbers, there are actually a million things that need doing on top of the actual lessons the kids are in? Ever heard of PPA and the hours teachers work outside school, or do you think they're just robots who are switched on?

Already on summer hols so no.

He goes to bed fairly late but he wouldn't normally drink on a Sunday night because of school. We're off to watch it in the pub though!

@vroc81 my thoughts exactly!

@y0rkier0se interesting! Didn't know this.thanks.

I replied on another post saying that I thought the idea of adults going into work late to “recover” was just silly.

I do feel differently about children, though. If their nation wins, something to be inspired by. If it looses, a lesson in resilience and sportspersonship.

Yes! Hopefully a history making moment I don't want them to miss.

No, but there’s loads of end of year activities / events next week. A couple are scheduled for that morning.

Nope and I would be sending her at normal time even if they did offer this option.

We don't watch football so it makes no difference to us. I don't really mind either way what other people choose to do but I do hope the people saying it's once in a lifetime also feel the same about missing school for a special family occasion / day out / holiday.

Exactly! Then there's end-of-term reports to sign off, wall displays to take down and classrooms to be cleared, books to be sorted out for kids to take home, prep to be done for the new class starting in September, last-min reports for SENCO, finish making the set for the end-of-year performance... my DP is exhausted and crawling towards the end of term. I honestly don't think parents have a clue how much work it takes.

Yes our school have said they must be in by 10am at the latest. Me and DH are working so DD will be in at the normal time. I imagine she won't be doing much in the first hour!