I'm annoyed that they got a school place.

[eeliie]

I requested a space for my ds at school when this lockdown started. I was told as I wasn't a key worker I couldn't have a space. I was still expected to go into work even though I had no other childcare option.

I saw a friend today, when I was out shopping, and she told me her dd is at school ( same class as ds) on the basis that they don't own a laptop.
She said her dd was relying on using her mobile to do schoolwork.

My ds is also using my phone as we don't have a laptop.

I have been furloughed and will probably be top on the redundancy list. Friend and her boyfriend are both unemployed and were just browsing in the shop today, together.

Am I right to feel annoyed?

[Kitcat122]

Loads of families don't have laptops. I have 4 children working from home. I don't have 4 laptops we just have to do the best we can. Does your child have a tablet? Can you borrow? We borrowed a crappy, slow, old laptop from a family member.

[Canwecancel2020]

This has to be the most divisive issue with parents and school entitlement... I have massively put my foot in it with colleagues I assumed would want (and have childcare grounds) to be furloughed but have useless partners and very precarious finances and have had to twist like a pretzel to get a kw space and are terrified of the critical worker criteria tightening up on them. It (almost) always seems to be mums tying themselves up in knots trying to pay the bills and get their kids educated. It showed me that you really can’t know another person’s situation, best just to get on with making the best of your own and be supportive where you can. There could be alsorts else going on and the laptop thing is an excuse.

[WorraLiberty]

It showed me that you really can’t know another person’s situation, best just to get on with making the best of your own and be supportive where you can. There could be alsorts else going on and the laptop thing is an excuse.

That's the point I make on every single thread like this (and God there's been loads).

"We don't have a laptop" could well be because the child has a chaotic home life, is at risk, or for any other reason that the parents would choose not to tell people whose business it isn't.

[LizFlowers]

Don't be annoyed for goodness sake, what will that achieve? it's just how things work out sometimes.

Look online for second hand refurbished laptops, you can sometimes get a bargain.

[cardibach]

@WhydoesItAlwaysRainMe

I'd be pissed off too op. I struggled to get a place at dc school, I had to get a letter from employer with dates I work etc (NHS) but I know for a fact there are children attending who shouldn't be, makes me wonder how they got a place

Now do you know it ‘for a fact’? You don’t know the grounds on which a school has given a place. You know what you’ve been told, either by the parents or gossips. No school would give out that information.