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?

The flight itself, no. Going straight into a normal workday after 5 hours of sleep and about 8h of travel, might be just as off putting.

Wow! No plans for late starts at my DCs School.. but I don't see much point to it, they would all still wake up at 6am regardless of how late they stay up the night before

@Willsean no, I don't think they are robots that are just switched on Lots of children will be in at the usual time so I'm wondering what those children will be doing in those 90 minutes if they are not having any lessons.

I'm sure 90 mins can easily be filled with a bit of reading etc

Hardly going to affect them long term is it!?

My DD's secondary is not letting them go in late on Monday. However they did go in late today - they didn't have to be in until 10.30 as it was the Open evening last night and lots of the girls were helping out.

I mean, heaven forfend that teachers might have slightly easier hour at work eh? Those lazy arsed slackers!! 🙄

and all that “overpaid blokes chasing a pigs bladders” snores ville stuff. It’s the national sport. It means a lot to a lot of people, including kids. Really you can’t get behind a bit of potential joy?

Juniors yet, secondary no

No, we did get an email at work reminding is that we do have flexible working for anyone who is going to be watching the football though

Just asked my DP: "Reading and writing."

No but DS at secondary so it's not necessarily going to mean a later than normal bedtime.

Doors open normal time but kids have 1/2 hr extra before they are marked down as late.

I have a 2 hr commute on mondays so dd will be dropped at breakfast club at 7.30 as per usual.
Bloody weird and unnecessary.

One day of tiredness didn’t kill anyone (during the last week of school…).

I agree with the sentiment of your post but this reminded me of reading that increase in mortality is directly linked to the loss of sleep when clocks change at spring time (more cardiovascular health incidents, more car accidents, more suicides, etc). That's just after one hour less sleep.

Our school haven't even mentioned it. We live in a very diverse area with a lot of international families so I reckon lots of kids won't be watching it anyway. I'll let mine stay up for the first half - but even if school was open later they'd still be up at 730 anyway.

Business as usual for my children (primary and secondary). We will be watching the match and getting up as normal Monday. If I hadn't seen this thread I would have assumed no school would start later due to the football final. I find it a bit bonkers to be honest.

Schools are doing this because they know full well that loads of kids will be late or off entirely if they do. It's a very practical decision and people are being silly complaining.

Jesus, I never thought I'd live to see they day where football stopped school. It's just men running around on a field, for god's sake. Would they do this for a women's match?

It happened a lot in 2021, so this isn't a new thing. There were threads complaining on here at the time too! Luckily, the women's finals in 2022 and 2023 were held in the school holidays, so the problem didn't arise. Although mine did miss a morning of school a couple of years ago because of women's football.

This is ridiculous- it’s just teaching children that life is a cushy number

Yes but only till half 9. It's a moot point in our house as neither of the DC are interested currently and both would be horrendous on even less sleep than they're getting normally. Plus they'd both wake up at the usual time anyway no matter when they went to bed!
It did cause a conversation with DH and I wondering what happened to the days where if we'd stayed up for something it would have been on the proviso from our parents that we understood we'd be tired the next day, would still have to do all the stuff we usually would like to go school and if we were horrible then we wouldn't stay up again the next time.

Unless you're quite young, I suspect what happened is differing attitudes to school attendance, because the reason schools are doing this is so it doesn't balls up their stats. Go back a few decades and they wouldn't have cared.

Although England getting to football finals wasn't a problem that had to be contended with for several decades anyway! After the men won 1966, the next one was the women in 2009. Then all of a sudden four come along in a row.

This is being done purely for the teachers' benefit!

Where I work hasn't mentioned it at all, there's loads going on in terms of end of year plays, trips etc.

But I can't blame schools for allowing it. Like someone up thread has said, better late than not at all.

How exactly, when teachers still have to go in as normal for the kids who go to breakfast club and the ones whose parents have to get to work after usual drop-off?

Head sounds a bundle of fun.

Nothing from my DS's school. He makes out like he likes football but when other games have been on in the earlier rounds he hasn't been bothered about watching them so doubt we will bother keeping him up anyway.

He is also 5 and doesn't stop talking 😂