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Dilemma: Would you make your Yr1 child go to school if sister's Junior school, on same site, was closed because of snow?

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emkana · 05/02/2009 16:21

This morning dd1's Junior school was closed due to snow, dd2's Infant school, on same site, was open.

What would you have done?

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fryalot · 05/02/2009 16:22

If the school is open, I would send them in.

Even if their sibling's school was closed.

If you keep them off when they can get to school then it is an unauthorised absence.

Even though it seems mean, I would still send to school the ones for whom it was possible for them to go.

fryalot · 05/02/2009 16:23

Although I would be asking some stern questions of the head teachers as to why one was open and the other not.

I understand that there is an issue when some teachers can make it in and some can't, but presumably that also means that some children can make it in and some can't, so they could share the children that can make it in around the teachers that can make it in

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Habbibu · 05/02/2009 16:23

How odd. Were there heating probs with the junior school, or something?

Love the latest photo of ds, btw - v. cheeky grin!

geekgirl · 05/02/2009 16:24

send them in and explain that school closures are often due to teachers not being able to get to school

but then I am a stickler for not taking children out of school without an excellent reason.

RubyRioja · 05/02/2009 16:24

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IdrisTheDragon · 05/02/2009 16:25

That does seem odd - although in our village the lower school was open and the middle school (very nearby) was closed. I think some lower school parents with children in middle school didn't send the lower school children in.

IdrisTheDragon · 05/02/2009 16:26

I would have sent the one at the school which was open in btw.

What did you do?

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emkana · 05/02/2009 16:28

I took the lot of them sledging...

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Blu · 05/02/2009 16:29

Yes, I would!
No reason not to, really! If school is open and you are well enough to go, you go!

PandaG · 05/02/2009 16:30

DS's school (juniors)- a 5 min walk from DD's school (infants) - was open on Tues, but the Infants was shut. I made DS go, as the school was open and only a 15 min walk. I was sad for DS though, only time in his life there was really enough snow to sledge. Took him sledging after school though, and he did computing and art all day at school so had a fun time there. He could have spent the time sledging with me and DD though, well over half the class were absent that day.

Blu · 05/02/2009 16:30

was this on Monday - or subsequent days?

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emkana · 05/02/2009 16:31

I would have had to drag dd2 in there kicking and screaming, and I just couldn't face it.

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emkana · 05/02/2009 16:31

It was today

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Hulababy · 05/02/2009 16:31

Would depend on the snow and what the journey there was like.

DD's school has been open all week. However we didn't go Tuesday as the snow where we live was dreadful. We stayed home and went sledging. Today we did get in but I brought DD home ajust after lunch - again teh snow is dreadful and the roads are so slippery. My car skidded 3 times on the way to my school this morning and it was very scary.

As an adult I made a judgement regards safety for me and my child. And for me, that is more important than if DD was at school. Her teachers agreed.

Bear in mind too that the school that is open may be skeletal staff and not much will be done by those children who do attend. I know at DD's school and the school I work at they were mainly playing, colouring and playing games - rather than doing any actual school work. Infact on Tuesday I know for definite that DD did way more educational work at home woth me than the 3 girls from her class who did manage to get in.

Blu · 05/02/2009 16:32

If it was Monday and everyone was snow-happy, I would have taken them both sledging. If Tue or Wed, and they had been sledging the day before, anyone who could have gone to school would have gone.

LilianGish · 05/02/2009 16:33

I would have kept them both at home and gone out to play in the snow without giving it a second thought.

Hulababy · 05/02/2009 16:35

DD's school tld parents that if the snow was bad even if they were open, then feel free to keep the children at home. DD's teacher said that a day sledging in the snow wasn;t going to hurt their education and that the chnces of us getting this much snow again whilst they were little was quite small, so enjoy it!

DownyEmerald · 05/02/2009 16:39

I would have taken them sledging and I think I'm quite strict about when kids go to school. DD is not yet 3, so I could find out I am not quite so strict in time .

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emkana · 05/02/2009 17:23

Monday both schools were open.

Most parents who have one at Junior's one at Infant's kept the Infant child at home today.

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Rothwellmummy · 05/02/2009 17:45

I would have kept her home.
My kid's school has been shut all week but even if it hadn't, we wouldn't have been able to get out of our road to get to it!!

We don't get snow often, it's fab to let them enjoy it!

pumpkinsoup · 05/02/2009 18:50

Our school was in the same situation this week - primary open, secondary shut. They told parents not to bother bringing in primary kids if they had a secondary age sibling, saying it would go down as a snow-related authorised absence.

We even had a letter telling us all to make our own decisions -'assessments of the situation', that all absences would be counted as authorised under government regulations - or something. - most families today walked in, walked out, up the hill and went sledging.

definately choose sledging given the option!

seeker · 05/02/2009 18:51

I would discover some very dangerous black ice on my drive, or in the road just outside my house, then go sledging!

tigermoth · 05/02/2009 21:19

I'd go sledging with both - it's one school day out of so many. You can always do some extra homework/reading with your dds to make up for it the lack of lessons.

Coldtits · 05/02/2009 21:20

Nope. They can unauthorised absense my arse. I'VE authorised it.

Hulababy · 05/02/2009 21:23

Honestly having been both in the infant school I work at, and in DD's infant school - they won't have missed anything anyway. So few children were in for teachers to be able to conduct proper lessons.

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