To think closing schools or making them "optional" during the heatwave is putting pressure on working parents and is just a bit silly?

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This doesn't actually effect me directly as neither of my children's schools have closed.
But some of the schools iny area are either closing or are making school optional IE: it won't be marked as absence.
I mean.... Really? Do kids actually need tome off because it's hot?
And is it fair on working parents to send out an email the day before to say school is closed? This heatwave was forecast last week.
Even making it "optional" puts the pressure on as the kids will want to stay off and many of their friends will be.
I just think it's bullshit tbh

Hope the teacher lawyers up!

The craziest thing about this is all the teenagers I saw walking around with hardly any clothes on getting sunburnt instead of being in school. On top of that how many injuries were caused because of them messing around at the beach or near water? It was supposed to be concern for their health, i would suggest staying off school was more dangerous 🤷‍♂️

They're the responsibility of their parents at that point, not the school?

The parents are probably at work!!!

Unreasonable to take days off to sit indoors with a teenager ( if you can get them to stay in(

So you're suggesting that teachers should sit indoors with a teenager (no learning going on) purely to babysit them to stop them from getting sunburned?

Instead of having the parents provide them with suncream?

Talk about wanting a literal nanny state.

A nanny state is keeping kids of school because its a bit hot!

Nope I'm suggesting the teenager should have a bit of bloody common senses and who said there wasn't suncream provided? But there is no way to ensure they will apply it

Maybe a few office workers could. Unlikely the police, ambulance crew surgeons bus drivers, factory workers etc could

It’s not” a bit “hot. Have you literally been asleep the past few weeks? Have you not seen the pressures the NHS are under?

My teenagers knew sun safety, could swim and knew how to keep themselves safe. Any teenagers needing parents or adults monitoring them 24/7 have frankly been failed by their parents.

In some areas it isn’t “silly” at all if the school can’t keep the children safely cool. It’s hugely inconvenient if schools close but, as they say, it isn’t about you, it’s about the children.

I’m particularly thinking of primary school, where some have had real problems, often because of the way they are built.

Why haven’t their parents taught them sun and water safety?

I've been sunbathing 😎

I’m assuming from your posts that you haven’t understood what a red alert means?

I lived through the summer of 76, that was extreme temperature for a long time. I remember a doctor giving advice to go for a pint and a packet of crisps to rehydrate and replace your salts 👍

In 76 my mum was advised to drink Guinness during pregnancy for the iron. 👍

In our school it was so hot, it was impossible.
Ms Manon, take yourself into a greenhouse on a scorching day, take 30 teenagers with you, some with SEN, some with complicated medical conditions, some with no water and then tell me it’s easy.

Thankfully knowledge has moved on significantly since then