Boarding schools - planning for Brexit?

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My DD is at a UK boarding school. We are also in the UK, but hundreds of miles away.

We now have only 50 days to a likely no deal Brexit.
I've asked the Head what contingency plans are in place for the effects of a no deal. This is in the current context of expected serious food, medication and fuel shortages, the possibility of contaminated tap water, no facilities for disposing of waste, civil unrest and an increase in crime (eg looting / burglaries).
He has told me that the school has not made any plans in respect of Brexit. And that other schools haven't either (the school is in some kind of independent schools association). Apparently it is too early to be making any contingency plans. The school has not written to any parents (whether UK or international) in relation to Brexit. I imagine that some international parents will have little or no idea of what is going on in the UK.
Can I ask whether anyone else has a child at boarding school and is worried about what will happen, both in respect of the Easter holiday (shortly after Brexit), and in respect of the summer term? Have your schools made any preparations or even just plans to do so?

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I doubt it. A Brexit super scenario. Very very strange,

Why would you send your dd to a boarding school 2+ days travel in the uk. Just why? There must be x amount of excellent boarding schools closer.

The reason for her being at that school is irrelevant. But if you must know, we had to move and she wanted to stay at the school. Not so extraordinary.

If you are genuinely this worried then surely you’ll go and get her in plenty of time and have her at home with you.
Surely if you expect civil unrest/looting/burglaries plus contaminated water and food shortages you’d want your family to be together.

I work in a boarding school. This hasn't even crossed my mind. Stocks did start to run low 5 or 6 years ago when it snowed lots though.
Nah. Still can't get worked up

Well, you have plenty it time before now and then to drive there and get her. Would she have not broken up for Easter by then anyway?

That's not at all reassuring, Derek.

She can get the train pre-Brexit, obviously.
But my question is whether any other boarding schools have put any plans in place?

Why would Brexit mean contaminated water?

To be honest OP, most of us will be so sick and tired of hearing about brexit by then we'll just be glad when it's over. As for civil unrest. Very unlikely really. Maybe a few months down the line when any affects kick in. Fuel, food and medication shortages if they happen will be short term and mostly due to people whipping up a frenzy.

This can’t be real 😀

You'd send her to a friend's house for 3 weeks at Easter rather than driving for a day to collect her? That's rather strange.

Why would she not come home for the holidays?

Agree Windy absolutely ridiculous.

Except....except.... there are a few super snowflake boarding parents. Not the norm. The op is certainly one. (If we are believers)

If you vision of the future is true, there won’t be trains running, no fuel in the petrol stations, so you wouldn’t be able to go get her, and if food runs out word may go around that you have a stock pile.

If you are that worried, I would pick her up now and fly out of the country ( before they shut the airports) and ride out the ‘storm’.

I'm not worried about water in the short term, though apparently there will be a shortage of purification chemicals. But I am worried that the people in charge of so many children are not even thinking about the effects of a no deal Brexit.

Driving for 4 days with my other child when there are likely fuel shortages maybe not so clever, but thanks for the suggestion. Never been called a snowflake before.

Why do you have to drive with your other child?

I have a friend who is very senior in a food related business, managing hundreds of food outlets/restaurants. I mentioned people stockpiling to him. Boxes of tins in the garage etc. He just laughed at me. No stockpiling in his business, and they feed thousands of people every day.

Why don’t you get her before any fuel shortages kick in? If you’re really that worried about what might happen surely you want to get her in plenty of time.

Can you answer the question please.

People are in serious denial about No Deal.

@TheWomanin12B maybe so but for this poster it’s a question of doing the prepping herself and then going to collect her daughter in plenty of time pre Brexit. It’s not long before the Easter holidays so her daughter won’t miss loads of school and will be home safely pre looting etc

Tbh, I think you're on a hiding to nothing here with all these ostriches.

Sorry, cross post.

1.I'd prefer not to leave the other child home alone.

1. I'd prefer the school to do their job and look after my child, rather than her missing a chunk of her education in an important school year.

How about stopping attacking me, and answering the question about whether your schools are making any contingency plans or not? Or should they have no responsibility for their pupils at all, and just expect all parents to remove their children before Brexit?

Yep big ostrich here. Just go now and get your dd. Then you won’t need to worry.

Do you not have a partner?

Gosh why would this not be real?
Boarding schools exist. People use them. They’re not some mythical thing like unicorns?
Op i had serious concerns about mine , but in an Eu boarding school.
British passports though, but serious worries about healthcare /insurance arrangements post Brexit. Also travel arrangements and so on . Nobody seems to have any answers.