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 they will still go outside. And you’re very lucky if you have a classroom with blinds and a fan!

No, I work in schools and understand how horribly hot they are. I don’t have my head in the clouds. They will be off school. My 15 year old also had a convulsive faint due to a very hot room in History last year. They were unsure if it was a seizure, but it was heat related.

I understand it’s not always feasible if parents are working etc but if you can keep them off, I absolutely would. Mine will be in our pool with lollies. Laughing at people thinking that classrooms don’t feel like green houses. They are fucking awful.

I just suggested to my son we might keep him off if it was as hot as forecast (39 in my area) and he said absolutely not as apparently their janitor is going to spray them with the hose "all break". So he's quite excited. His school has a lot of playground shade. If his school had to keep them inside I'd not send him I think.

Seems our school is also considering that on Wednesday for example, it will still continue to get hotter after school is finished. Peak temp where we are will be at 5pm at 39c

Now we’re know the kind of families that produce adults who skive at any opportunity.

It’s now been upgraded to a red weather warning for some areas including mine for Wednesday and Thursday. I don’t recall having a red warning here before, for any type of weather.

Our school just asked us to pick them up at lunchtime on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So that's all the families at our school producing skiving adults😞

Yes ours are being sent home at lunchtime on Wednesday and Thursday

To the pps who's children are being sent home at lunchtime, what temp is it forecasted to be? It's supposed to be 36 at mine but no mention of an early closure yet.

@FckThisShit

says 38 on Wednesday and 39 on Thursday here. Some parts of the country are down as 40 on the Thursday.

I am sending mine to school. I trust the school to take care of the kids otherwise I’d never send them there, and so they’ll care for them in the heat too. If it gets too bad for the school to keep the safe then the school will send them home.

Thank you. My extended family are in the 39-40 degree zone, every time I see the forecast it goes up a degree. I'm hoping they've over egged it but given today feels as hot as it does and it's about 23 degrees I might just book into a hotel with air con 😂

Just reported on the BBC that 845 French schools have closed due to the heatwave with 1800 more rearranging their teaching hours.

Apparently many more are giving informal advice about keeping children home.

So much for ‘British people are skivers, Europeans manage fine’, I guess.

I’ve just had a chat with one of the SMT at DD’s school and they’ve said they have “absolutely no objection whatsoever if I was to make the sensible and practical choice to keep her at home Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”, which is as close as they can get to asking me to keep her home.

DS3’s primary school has said they’re considering closing at lunchtime on Wednesday and Thursday and will confirm this afternoon.

DS2’s high school has put a loaf of kids in isolation for wearing their full PE kit, including white trainers, today rather than wearing PE kit with black trainers as requested. This includes a number of kids whose parents wrote notes saying that they didn’t have black trainers as the PE kit allows black trainers. There are a lot of very pissed off parents.

It wouldn't even cross my mind not to send them! My youngest is in y13 and just finished her exams so a moot point anyway.
My exdh (still live together, it's complicated) said my shifts should be cancelled because of the heat as
a) it's too hot (physical job in warehouse)
b) I'm over 60
I hope not as I wouldn't get paid! And he doesn't work

In my area, Portsmouth city council have told all crossing patrol lollipop men and ladies that they can't work in the afternoons. Only the mornings and even that will be reviewed daily!

Surely this should be a decision made by schools rather than by individual parents ? I remember the last heatwave, some schools closed, some schools partially closed, some relocated children to cooler areas of the school. Most operated as normal - it very much depended on the school buildings and surrounding areas.

But no, some parents obviously know better than education professionals... (plus ca change)

In other countries parents crack on with life kids go to school and all get on with it.

Its summer not war.

they don’t just crack on with it. They make accommodations for it, like work/school finishing early to avoid the peak heat.

Almost 1000 schools have shut in France this week because of the heat. So in other countries rhey definitely arnt just getting on with it

France, Belgium and Italy are all shutting schools in the hottest regions and advising people not to travel. Why are some people so obsessed with this weird reverse UK exceptionalism?

Everyone who says 'its summer's
Yes...it is but summer is a season, a position of the planet in relation to the sun, it's not a type of weather.....this is extreme heat in summer.

I'm planning to let my children go to school in what I , and they , consider appropriate for the temperature and school can decide whether to isolate them (and most of their friends), send them home, or turn a blind eye.

Some schools are already announcing closures in the south of England. France shut 850 schools today because of the heat.

This is just a very petty HT who seems to enjoy causing rows with parents (and I say that as someone who worked in schools for 20 years and normally backs to the hilt).

He emailed yesterday to say kids should wear full PE kit (which doesn’t dictate a trainer colour) but with black trainers. Where parents were meant to get black trainers from on a Sunday night is anyone’s guess.

DS had black trainers but if he hadn’t I’d likely have just kept him home. Their isolation room is like an oven in winter, it’s ridiculous to have kids in there today.