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they couldn't authorise the absence
I'm on the side of the school on this one. There will be loads of families in a similar situation and they can't shut the school a week later. The summer holidays are 6 weeks which gives plenty of time to spend a fortnight at home and then go visit relatives after that.
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Yeah, you're probably right. It's largely logistics, with other grandkids coming on different weeks, and our wider summer plans (lots of camping) meaning that first week and the last week of the holidays being our main window.
When we arranged it all, we hadn't foreseen the full petri dish scenario for this last half term!I still think they should be leaving off the patronising and aggressive language in the letter, given we're living through a fucking pandemic!
Scrabble
Also, we'd decided to take both kids out a week early at the end of term. We wanted to be in the clear for our planned trip back to the other set of grandparents at the start of the holidays. While they're double vaxxed, they are much more vulnerable in general (70's heart condition and mid 80's). We've not seen them enough the last 18 months, and we're well into the "not sure how many more years we have with both of them" phase - so we're trying to safely spend as much time as possible with them now.
Told school our reasoning, based on the increasing cases and high chance of being told to isolate in the last week of term for at least one of the girls, and got a snotty letter back that they couldn't authorise the absence! This was yesterday and today they've told 100 kids not to come to school!