To not want to send children to school when there’s a storm

[Bestofbothworlds19]

It’s rotten today where we live. Throwing it down with rain all night and this morning, set to continue all day. Winds are strong too, I can see one of the trees along our road has lost one of its branches (not a small one either) which has snapped into the pavement and is partly in the road. I then worry about anything like that happening close to us when walking to school. Fairly certain my youngest won’t even be able to hold her own in this wind anyway lol. I’m not talking about a typical windy rainy autumn day here, it’s far worse than that where we are. Would you keep your children off or not? (Mine are primary school age but question applies for any age really)

FFS really? 😂

erm…what?

You will see quite a lot of smaller branches coming off - the trees are stressed after the dry summer and leaves on the trees still mean they are more likely to come down.

Only a tiny bit relevant, but in allegiance-
Shout out to all teachers today who know that wind equals hyped up kids, especially lesson 5!

Not here it isn’t! Ours is next week

No, I would send them to school. If it was that dangerous the school would be closed, as in 1987. Here, I wouldn't have thought twice about it if the storm hadn't been given a name - it just seems like a normal horrible day!

We're surrounded by trees and have branches down all the time, you'll be fine OP, try not to worry.

I get that it's really late in the term and we're all feeling fed up and it wouldn't take much to feel like not going in. That said unless you have a particularly high risk route I think you'll feel better long term if you suck it up, pack spare socks, wrap up and go.

It’s this sort of stuff that has led to the draconian attendance management we see now. Parents viewing school as optional is part of the problem.

Send your children to school.

For gods sake 😂 if the school is open you send them in. You can’t be serious!

Not you don’t keep them off because they shouldn’t get into the habit that you could take a day off work because of bad weather.

I know what you are saying, when ours started primary it was an adjustment from play school in that if you wanted a duvet day you could have one.

But we didn’t keep them off.

Our teens went in today, one in weatherproof coat on train, one fully weatherproofed cycling in the wind and rain. It makes them prepared for their young adult lives in the UK, there is always going to be weather, lots of different types.

We teach them, be aware, check the cycle path for.obstacles, note trees, flying roof tiles, empty bins.

Yes it’s miserable, but yes they go in if school open. It’s a terrible lesson to teach them they can’t.

OP you are far far more likely to harm your children with this anxiety than you are through the infinitesimally small chance they get hit by a branch on the way to school.

With kindness, I think you need to get some professional help.

Where do you draw the line… scared they’ll slip on ice in a frosty day? Worried they’ll get heatstroke during a hot spell?
You don’t want to pass these anxieties onto your children. Honestly there’s kids playing superheroes in the wind and jumping in puddles all over the UK today.
if the school is open, send them in!

No. We don't want a generation of complete wusses. people went to work during the blitz.

It really is a good job many of todays parents were born when they were. How would they have coped with sending the kids to school in rain, high winds, deep snow, ice ,and even worse, walking there with no adult in sight as happened all the time pre probably mid 80s

If it wasn't obvious, send your children to school

What about
Keep Calm and Carry On
Are you a 'snowflake' do you want your children to be Wimps?
It's a storm not a tsunami and southern hemisphere cyclone.

Two flakes and the Council shuts the A30!! 😁

If it’s really bad they close the schools so if school is open they go in

Schools near us didn’t even close with the red warning last time. It’s only a yellow!

They can't win though. Either they do that, or they get caught out and 1000 cars get snowed in overnight on Bodmin Moor.

If the school is open, take them in. Schools get guidance to shut off the weather is that severe.

There are other children the same age/size as your child going in - of course she'll be able to "hold her own" in the weather.

Don’t be silly pard, that’s for the height of emmet season.