AIBU to think school closures ignore parents' work commitments?

[OhNoItsThePinkyPonk]

AIBU to think that the school doesn’t take much account of parents’ need to work? Primary school have just announced they won’t be opening for the rest of the week, but it’s OK because they’ll be sending us online work for us to do with the children, and whilst they are sorry they have had to cancel sports day we shouldn’t be too upset because they’ve have rescheduled it for a couple of weeks time. Like, I totally get they have to put the safety of the children first and if it’s too hot it’s too hot, but what do they think I’m
doing when the kids are at school, preparing beautiful dinners, ensuring the craft box is topped up, pining wistfully for the moment they come home? FFS, my job obviously comes second to my children and of course I’ll cancel planned surgeries and clinics where I need to. It’s not the emergency that bothers me, it’s the blasé way in which it’s communicated as though it’s a
minor inconvenience, not a major major f’ing headache with serious second and third order effects.

phew, that’s better. Now to go and get the little darlings…

While it’s utterly stupid that schools have such inflexible clothing rules, missing a mock exam has no consequences at all. She can take it when she’s next in. It’s a school thing.

Its a common sense thing

While that school is clearly run by bellends, they're not representative of England where most are in PE kit or even closed.

Well yes. I said the clothing rule was stupid. What I’m saying is that missing a mock is neither here nor there. Just to put everyone’s mind at rest.

Its the Co op Academy Manchester

Risky things? If you are talking from the quoted post then those things were done at school

Why are they so inflexible? That’s nuts

I meant the river, obviously. And other risky behaviour that can, and does, lead to serious injury and death.

The infant school near to me (that I worked at for nearly 15 years) closed yesterday and today.
School staff have been in today but not the children. Next door shoved their kids out into their paddling pool late morning today.
It’s bloody madness. We’re not inner London (we’re in a coastal town) and I have 100% worked in these conditions before with the children in school.
Yes, it was absolutely shit but we’re not inland where it’s even worse than here.

True. There are 6 secondary schools in a 4 mile radius to where I live (including the one I teach at). A parent on my local community page was ranting that her daughter was sent to isolation for wearing PE kit as the 'relaxed' uniform was just no blazer and tie. The rest of our schools has PE rule. There are crap schools out - I wish parents could not tar us all with the same brush.

School is to educate. Childcare arrangements are for the parents to sort out. Very entitled imo to view school as childcare and demand that it remain open for such purposes, as some posters have been doing.