School aaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

NickyBat

My 12 year old has been off for a week with a bad chest, today the school sent them off to do athletics outside for the day because they were opening a new farm

Apparently they should have all had a packed lunch etc but he didn't because he didn't know about it with being off.

They had 6th formers with them and when he told them he didn't have any lunch he was told it was too bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am trying to calm down about it but it's not happening.

Can't believe they would send an asthmatic out in the cold for so long.

Amanda65

NickyBat wrote: »

My 12 year old has been off for a week with a bad chest, today the school sent them off to do athletics outside for the day because they were opening a new farm

Apparently they should have all had a packed lunch etc but he didn't because he didn't know about it with being off.

They had 6th formers with them and when he told them he didn't have any lunch he was told it was too bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am trying to calm down about it but it's not happening.

Can't believe they would send an asthmatic out in the cold for so long.

Sorry if I'm being thick but don't understand why opening a new farm meant they had to do athletics. Also no school would send out only 6th Formers for a whole day - there must have been staff there too. Why did you son not speak to a member of staff?

joeblack066

Schools do not understand asthma and the level of seriousness that goes with it. Speak to the head teacher, and if that fails, the board of governors. Make sure this never happens again. Hope your son is ok :-)

paddedjohn

joeblack066 wrote: »

Schools do not understand asthma and the level of seriousness that goes with it. Speak to the head teacher, and if that fails, the board of governors. Make sure this never happens again. Hope your son is ok :-)

Where does the OP state that her son suffers from asthma? she only mentioned a chest infection.
edit see post 6

BritAbroad

OP does state they had asthmatics out in the cold.

In saying that, cold air is not necessarily bad for asthmatics - it does depend on what their triggers are. I'm asthmatic and a snowsports fanatic, so I regularly spend full days exercising in temperatures well below zero (frequently below zero fahrenheit too). I'd have thought cold damp air is probably more likely to aggravate a chest infection though.

If cold air is a trigger for your son, maybe a note from the doctor would help with the school? Schools sometimes take a blanket approach to asthma which isn't helpful as the trigger for one person is not the same for another.

paddedjohn

Ha ha i misread that as athletics out in the cold.

Seanymph

I'm not sure how the school works you are at - at all the ones our kids have been to if they usually have school dinners then school can provide a packed lunch (and does) for those children. Otherwise those on free school meals would miss out.

Unfortunately often when you dig into these things it is the child who has been unaware of the arrangements in place rather than the school not putting them in place IYSWIM.

So go in quietly - and rage up once you find out it's entirely their fault.

bitemebankers

Seanymph wrote: »

Unfortunately often when you dig into these things it is the child who has been unaware of the arrangements in place rather than the school not putting them in place IYSWIM.

So go in quietly - and rage up once you find out it's entirely their fault.

Exactly. It seems very unlikely that this was planned at short notice. Schools generally give weeks or even months of notice of changes like this, but kids frequently forget, especially if they've been off for a week. Make sure you're definitely in the right before you go in all-guns-blazing.