To think the school has unrealistic expectations?

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An off-site activity has been pencilled in for 4 days in a row. The venue is about a 15 minute drive away from the school, more at peak times. Public transport exists but is not frequent and will add considerable time.

The children are to be split into 2 sessions. For one, the children need to be dropped at the venue every day by their parents. For the other, they need to be picked up from the venue every day.

We have to confirm and pay for the activity before they will tell us which group our child has been assigned to and what the actual pick up and drop off times are. There is no flex on this at all because it all depends on numbers apparently.

Add to this that some children have siblings attending another off site activity on the same day, again with parents required to collect from a (different) off site venue.

I am left with absolutely no idea whether we can accomodate this around work / the sibling and/or make arrangements with other parents who are equally in the dark. So I can either say no outright, leaving a very disappointed child, or say yes and potentially lose my money if it turns out we can’t do make it work.

I love that the school is trying to provide enrichment, but really feeling the parental guilt with this one!

State school.

AIBU?

They seem to be on a one man crusade to make this way more bloody complex than it ever needed to be!

Schools never get involved in arranging lift shares, something to do with it making them liable if anything happens. Every school I’ve worked in has asked parents to organise lifts amongst themselves for sports fixtures etc so this isn’t an uncommon way of doing things.

No idea on the legality of sharing a list of kids names, but my daughters class are all on Teams and if you look on the team list you can see who else in the class which amounts to the same thing.

I didn't mean regarding the lift shares. I meant that they still haven't told the op and other parents the bloody times.

Honestly it's like they are going out of their way to make this complicated.