Are you sending your children to school Tuesday and Wednesday?

[wonderouswelly]

I am a teacher and have heard lots of parents won’t be sending their children in during the heat wave next week.

Are you keeping yours off?

I am dreading it as a teacher; our classroom is so stuffy!

Yes but I wasn’t referring to schools being closed? The PP said they wouldn’t send their kids in if the school advised them not to. If it’s only advice, the school would still be open, wouldn’t it? Otherwise it would be more than just advice, it would be ‘don’t send them in as we’re closed’.

No

I Think we are editing and crossing posts.

I can’t see a school being open but recommending that you don’t send the children in.

Definitely will play be ear keeping them home depending on temp, humidity and whether a red warning is issued. We’re in the south and my kids school is an underfunded state school that has no infrastructure to mitigate v high temps. People on here being dismissive and shocked at the suggestion sound completely ignorant. 38 degrees is not carry on as normal weather, esp not for small children who are more vulnerable to heat related illness.

Yes. 😂 One of mine is meant to be doing an all day rounders fixture on Tuesday! I am wondering if that will get re-scheduled. I sure as hell am not keeping them home. We don’t do ‘duvet days’ in our house. Everyone is expected to just get on with it.

I think we are agreeing, but with a time lapse. I misread the first time.

I agree, schools won’t authorise if they are open and you choose not to send them in.

No me either, but that’s what the poster said that I was replying to. If it was just advice not to send them in, I’d want to be assured that it would be authorised. If they were shut, it would be authorised as we’d have no choice whether to send them or not.

Haha agreed!

My office still has the heating on!

It wont go off until July. They need to get engineers in to do it. You can't adjust individual radiators.

Nope, because teen DS broke up for summer hols third week in May and were away on holiday. 😁

What are they going to do instead? Utterly ridiculous. We have become a nation of complete wet lettuces.

It regularly gets to 40+ where we go in Aus and no one has Aircon but it's nowhere near as gross as 35 is in London! London is definitely not built for heat.

You'd think we've never experienced a heatwave.

Hydrate. Switch on a few fans or turn the air conditioning on.

Oh my god. How the fuck are kids these days ever supposed to develop any resilience to anything?

Unless you've got an air conditioned house they are more likely to be too hot at home than at school.

I wonder how many people saying it's too dangerous for their kids to go to school in a heatwave think nothing of taking them to Spain or Turkey in August and letting them roast on a beach all day.

I think that’s part of the issue - until recently, it didn’t regularly reach these temps here and we aren’t built for it.

Same as snow, you can’t really spend money on an issue that happens once a decade or so, so of course the country can’t cope.

Heat and rain are becoming more of an issue though and we need to do something.

I think people don't realise how very hot it's going to be in some parts. My school has a translucent roof and huge glass windows. Last year I had kids almost passing out and feeling sick. We're not wet lettuces, we're feeling ill from extreme heat.

Imagine if Mediterranean children stayed home when it’s hot.

Mine will be off. It’s too hot, I’m sure the school would do their best but they don’t have AC and I can keep the dc cooler at home.

Don’t they have different school hours ?

I've just cancelled our caravan break for next week. It was only cheap anyway but no way would we be comfortable staying in a metal and glass box. I'd also be very worried about the state of my garden when I get back.

Not to mention buildings built for heat.

Yep, I grew up in rural Australia and I'll take 40 degrees in Longreach over 32 degrees in London any day.

(Plus my dad would sometimes rig an irrigation sprinkler on the roof when it was really hot, harder to do in a semi in the suburbs.)

The fact that people are still banging on about the summer of 1976 is an indication of how unusual it was; the fact that none of the 15 hottest days happened that summer gives you an idea of our current trajectory.

My kids will be in; the secondary has half the classrooms air-conditioned and with the A level and GCSE kids (mostly) gone they'll be able to switch around classrooms more. The primary doesn't have aircon but they're imaginative and have risk-assessed the hell out of it; last time it got this hot they let them empty out their trays, fill them with water and put their feet in them. DS2 still speaks fondly of it.

I'll probably keep both off basketball and football training (outdoor) on Tuesday and Wednesday. This Australian knows how to be sensible around extreme temperatures and high humidity unlike some of the "it's just summer" types.

Exactly the same attitude during covid while those of us in early years carried on with children far too young to maintain a distance & keep their germs to themselves!

Of course! I don't have air-conditioning at home, so they'd be hot here.

School have relaxed the uniform, DC will be fine in thin cotton shorts & dresses. Ive got icepack for their lunches.

Part of the school site is wooded so they'll likely all play in the shade, plus there are two shaded outdoor classroom spaces, as well as shaded outdoor classroom space in reception & year 1 so they will get time outdoors.

Yes of course. They have access to water. What’s the issue??