Teachers strike - one child's class open, the other isn't

[13lucky]

Some of the teachers at my dc's school are striking and some aren't. My dd's class therefore is shut and she gets the day off but my reception child (who isn't settling well at all at the moment) is in a class where the teacher is not striking. Therefore I have the unenviable task of trying to explain to a child who cries everyday when I drop him that he has to go to school but his older sister gets the day off with Mummy. How is that going to work?! Would it be reasonable to keep him off as well or will the school get really shirty?

I'd get your DDs teacher to explain it to him

Get your dd to wear her uniform for drop off.... he'll never know that she didn't go to school.

Of course she'll know. No sibling in assembly, playground or lunch. Unless it's a huge primary DC2 will know.

It's one of those life isn't fair, you have to suck it up, or invent a nice virus moments.

I confess I have refused to risk bending my car in the snow when the senior school closed and the juniors didn't.

Heaven knows what's going to happen about fines for unauthorised absence, in bad weather, in rural areas.

I guess you're right StarBallBunny. I was thinking of my children's school which has a completely separate Reception/Nursery section.

We quite often have this issue in the snow, when the Infants close, and the Juniors remain open, despite only having a fence between them. I've tended to walk all children to school in uniform, and only find out the infants is closed once we get there. This was less successful once my children were old enough to google school closures.

I think that, technically, if a child doesn't turn up to school on a strike day where that teacher is not striking and the class is running as normal, then it would have to be logged as an unauthorised absence.
Slightly galling, but true.

Yes, little 4 class village school, nursery you might get away with as their play area is round the back, main school not a chance.

I'm likely to have the same problem, we've just had a very unhelpful letter saying we won't know untill the 15th who's on strike on the 17th.

I bet they ask Y10-13 to go in and not the younger ones.

We had our strike last week I had 2 children in school, 3 children's classes were shut. The ones who had to go in got a bit extra snack money as a little treat