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!

@Sirzy
Yes a good sensible reply.
The teachers need to remind the children to be drinking water.
Also they will be prepared and be dressed for the warm weather, there won't be a problem.
I don't see why parents need to keep their children home because of the heatwave. It's ridiculous to do that and a silly excuse. They're just making a drama about a bit of good weather.

Well ds has an inset day on Tuesday so no, but Wednesday yes. His classroom is air conditioned and is lovely being in there.

38 degrees isn't good weather. It's awful weather!

25 would be 'good weather'.

I forgot to add my children will be going to school, they are in secondary school.

Met office app for MY area, not yours, funnily enough.

No but I have had one person cancel a tutoring appointment which is fair enough I guess even though I’ve got air conditioning in my “classroom” (converted office). I do think maybe dragging them to my house for two hours of advanced higher maths on a sunny day is a bit mean.

Where we’ll end up is with a load of adults who stay off work when it’s hot.

One of my employees in 2022 (air conditioned office, I’d add) asked for a last minute holiday because she’d “rather be in the sun.”

Presumably that was acceptable when she was at school and she had parents managing her day and not a manager.

I wasnt doubting you, 38/39 sounds awful and I was worried to make sure if any of my elderly relatives who are dotted about will be affected

As a teacher, I would hope that she is hoping to have fewer kids.
🙁

I don't see what's wrong with asking to take a days holiday at short notice?
I am always happy to agree this for my team if they dont have meetings/key deadlines etc

Depends on the role but I can never see the harm in asking. People have allocated leave to use as they wish

What’s wrong with that? As long as she’s using annual leave rather than pulling a sickie, she can use it as she pleases. She asked. If you said no for any other reason than too many people off already and you would have said no if it was raining, you would be unreasonable.

Most schools can't afford to buy more pencils. Let alone air con!

Try the Met Office forecast, which is probably the most accurate. It's currently saying that placed in London will get to 38 on Tuesday and/or Wednesday.

People who keep referring to how they cope on hotter countries:

• they tend to start and finish the school day earlier
• many finish the year in June rather than the end of July
• the buildings are generally designed for hot weather.

For example I visited several schools in India a few years ago and they tend to have very high ceilings, window openings (no glass) and shutters, thick masonry/ concrete and shaded courtyards. They don’t tend to have full south facing glazing as is the case in both my DD’s classrooms.

A classroom in a building designed for a hot climate is not necessarily comparable to a UK classroom designed for maximum natural light and heat retention during the winter.

Have you noticed if you stay in a villa in Spain or somewhere like that, that it feels noticeably cooler when you go inside even if there’s no AC?

But we don't have a society which can handle this. Fewer extended families, no villas by the coast ( well for some).
Both parents have to work to survive.

I’m in London… edited to add this is from AccuWeather. I think I need to look at a different app… this is far too hot.

I expect you are right.

Errrr

We had the weather man telling it was going to be "lovely and warm"

Cancel the cheque.

Boring.

What a ridiculous comment. There are other places in the UK that are predicted highs of 38/39. I live in one of them! As do plenty of other people who’ve commented on this thread.

Where we are in SW we are predicted 37 on Wednesday and Thursday.

Only expected to be 25/26 degrees where I am but I’m expecting loads of pupils to be off. We finish for summer on Thursday at lunch time so numbers would normally be fading. But next week temperatures are away back down so many pupils will take a left and end up in the park next door rather than at school.

I know how uncomfortable my classroom is going to be this week at 25/26 degrees(will be over 30 in my room as once it gets hot it’s impossible to cool, even overnight) 10+ degrees higher is going to be awful and not conducive to learning at all. Sympathy to teachers down south.

maybe we need to write it out in old school faranheit to hit home how hot it is. It will be 100.4 degrees faranheit here on Wednesday!

I said no because she was already in the building. She came in (to our air conditioned office with a freezer full of ice creams” and an hour or so in said she “should” be out in the sun.

No, you “should” be at work.

Our holiday policy is a weeks notice unless it’s an emergency, “I’d like to be at the beach” isn’t an emergency and “it’s warm” isn’t extenuating circumstances.

We’re raising a generation of people who think that responsibility is optional depending on if you fancy it or not.

Are you seriously asserting that the UK is more humid than any other country??!! Honestly, this comes up every summer - the UK is hotter, more humid, etc etc - where is the evidence?

Do you actually know how buildings are designed in every other country in the world - I'm impressed 🤔