to keep DC home for the rest of the day?

[Tortoise]

School boiler was broken this morning so school was closed. Just had a text (12.20!) saying school will open for 12.15 in time for lunch.

I live about 20 min walk from school. No lunches are made and kids aren't in uniform.

AIBU not to bother taking them?

Give them their lunch at home and take them in in time for afternoon school

yanbu.they should have given more notice.i wouldnt bother bringing them in.

Is it worth it for 2 hrs of school though, really?

Thanks raven .

Of course you should take them as soon as you can. 5 minutes to put on uniform and you can eat snadwiches on the way! School is open, they're supposed to be there, you know it's open - what possible reason can you have for not taking them other than that you can't be bothered? I certainly wouldn't want to teach my kids that we can pick and choose when it's worth 'bothering' to go to school.

Take them.

It is 2 hours of peace for you in exchange for 20 mins there, 20 back. And they should be in anyway.

As for not enough notice, fgs, what do you want? Psychic predictions of when boilers will be fixed?

Yabu.

Mine are 4 and 6 and I probably wouldn't take them because I'd love the (actully quite feeble) excuse to keep them at home doing cosy stuff with me. Except for the fact that my DD would be furious - she loves school and would feel she was missing out if her friends were there and she wasn't. She would insist on going if she knew the situation. DS would be delighted to stay at home but would be fine once there. So I don't you are aunreasonable if you like sneaking some extra unexpected time with them. But if your loves school as DD does you are being unfair.

Of course you aren't being unreasonable. By the time you get there, get home, leave again that's an hour of your valuable life gone.

I would probably take mine but I do think its unreasonable for them to give such short notice.

Well, your phone might have run out of battery so you wouldn't have got the text! Seriously - i wouldn't bother taking them in, however i would probably send them with a note tomorrow saying that you weren't able at that time to get them into school for whatever reason you might choose, but you could always say you had taken them on an educational visit to the fun fair or something It is perfectly feasible that you would have made other plans to take the kids out. Don't sweat it, i'm sure lots of other mums wont pitch up either

Well i decided i am keeping them home. It won't be 2hrs peace by the time i have walked there and back. By the time i am home it will be nearly time to pick them up again. Sure they miss out much school work in one afternoon.

They have been playing nicely together all morning and are having a lovely extra day home from school.

Enjoy!

Keep em orf tortoise and have a lovely cosy afternoon in the house....am sooooooo jealous, am stuck in work with only boring work stuff to do so Im am increadibly biased

Northernlurker is being silly - surely they should be chanting timestables and practicing mental arthimetic while they're eating lunch and on way to school?