Natasha Hinde is the Parents Editor at HuffPost UK where she writes about the highs and lows of life as a parent, while also commissioning features for the section.
to share with the masses how her child’s school was “driving her bonkers” with the expectation that parents “can drop everything” to attend events in the middle of the day.“I know there is probably no answer to this, but the repeated reminders and the ‘we strongly recommend that all parents make every effort to attend’, just makes me feel awful when I can’t attend due to... well... working,” she said.
“I thought getting the children to write invites for their parents seemed particularly unfair – and school must surely realise that a lot of parents work and won’t be able to make it,” she added.The parent said she does what she can to attend these events – like taking holiday from work or making time up elsewhere – but her employers’ good will “only goes so far” and she has no more annual leave to take. “What does everyone else do?” she asked.
“Being able to go into your kids’ school is lovely but getting a couple of days notice or scheduling things in the middle of the day is unhelpful.” But some suggested schools don’t expect parents to turn up when they hold these events during the day.
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