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!

Ah yes. My eldest did theirs two weekends ago luckily!

My kids primary school has an outdoor pool, when it's hot they go in every day, they'd be bloody furious with me if I kept them home!

Yeah, true. Fair point.

That is similar to ours too. We have two windows at the top that open. Then two at the bottom on the opposite side which only open about two inches. Will keep the door open perhaps.

If the school advised that we shouldn’t send them then I wouldn’t.

I really struggle with heat and will be asking to work from home. Things that help me though for those who have to

• running wrists under cold tap regularly
• neck fan with cooling plate
• spray bottles of cold water
• cooling gel pads

Even in that situation, and on the off chance my employer would be happy for me to take the day off, I’d want assurance that their absence would be authorised.

I work in a school and really dreading it. It gets ridiculously hot in the classrooms. You have to have the windows open and pull down the blinds but that traps the hot air. It’ll be stifling.

If the school closed, it would be.

My DS will be going, I hadn’t even considered that not sending kids to school when it was hot was even a thing until reading this. I’ve got to go to work in an air conditioned building 🙈 so I have no choice but to send him anyway. His brother will be going to his private nursery but they have air conditioning so he’ll be better off there anyway.

With temperatures reaching 41 for us in Europe, yes!
ice lollies and dips in the pool over hot stuffy classrooms any day. In the UK however - yes I probably would send them to school.

Well of course 😂. I wasn’t referring to schools being closed though. I was replying to someone who said that they’d keep them at home if the school advised them to.

I’m in London and can’t see where people are getting 39C from. It’s saying 35C is the hottest day for me on BBC weather. Which is still horrendous!

My android is saying 38 for parts of Somerset and london

Also though, as I work for the NHS my service users would also have to accept a reduced service.

I didn’t mean to quote you. I meant to reply to the person who would want the absence marked as authorised.

I’m confused, you literally said that if you were to keep them off, you would want assurance that it would be authorised - and I replied it would be.

Sorry was that meant for me?

I imagine we will have hot weather play as the children call it, meaning we won't be outside and instead will stay indoors. That or we will have a shorter break outside and then have some time to play inside. Not sure which is worse though, out in the hot sun or in the hot stuffy classroom.

That was me. I still don’t really understand the relevance though? I wasn’t talking about schools being closed. Obviously the absence would be authorised in that case. I was referring to a situation in which the school advised you not to send your children in.

I wouldn't be sending my kids in if the temperature is hitting mid-30s. It's incredibly dangerous and most schools do not have adequate AC. Neither do buses or trains.

On top of that British school uniforms are not designed for extreme heat. Yes they can remove their blazers blah blah but it's still incredibly uncomfortable clothing.

IMO schools shouldn't even open unless they have AC installed in every classroom.

When my children were young,we had warmish weather in July, they never had a day off due to high temperatures.I don't remember high temperatures in the 80s or 90s.We did not own a electric fan.Only had sun cream when we went on holiday to Spain.The sun now seems unusually very hot & humid compared to those years, with the exception of 1976, which was a one off heatwave with drought.I went into our loft 37c on the thermometer,around the second week of june.We in the UK are not really prepared for climate change.Not many people have AC in there homes.We have had to adapt to keeping children cool with water hats & sun cream,which was unheard of in the UK when my children were at school.Must be uncomfortable in schools without AC sitting at a desk in 30c+.When you're at home you can at least drink cool water all day,stay in a shaded ventilated area with a fan.

Why would you send them to school here?

Last time it was 40c they shut our school anyway but it was the last two days of term
so wasn’t such an issue.

Im hoping they let them have the day off tbh. I went into the classroom last week and it was only about 26 that day and it was so stuffy in there.

im confused too.

If the school chooses to close, it would be authorised.

Yeah our school has hot play some summers and they aren’t allowed out. I expect they will do this on Tuesday and Weds if it doesn’t close

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