A mum was reduced to tears after receiving a letter from a school that slammed parents for not sending their kids to class during the storm.
A school's leadership has been slammed after it wrote an angry letter to parents who kept their kids off during the worst storm the country has had in more than 30 years.
Storm Franklin forced many parents who send their children to All Saints Catholic Primary School in Bootle on Monday to say how “staggering” it was that they were not in school during the day.
Most of the country was battered by 70mph winds and rain all day.
The letter, as reported by the Liverpool Echo, reads: “Unfortunately, we have many children absent today, not because of Covid or other illnesses but apparently because of the wind!
“I have to say I find this staggering, not least because most live in very close proximity to school.
“Given the amount of pre-school and school experiences that our children have already missed in the last two years, missing a whole day's learning today is unacceptable.
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“For staff, many of whom travelled considerable distances here this morning, eager to introduce new learning topics to their class, it is incredibly frustrating.
“I'm always in awe when I see photographs of children and parents around the world who value education so dearly that they walk barefoot for miles or clamber over rubble, past bombed-out ruins, in order to get to school.
“I wonder what they might make of our attendance rates in school today.”
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One parent of the school told the Echo anonymously that she kept her child out of school that day for “safety reasons”, and that the letter caused her to “cry”.
She also berated the school for comparing children living in Bootle to those living in “war torn” countries.
However, the school's headteacher Angela Holleran said that she regretted any upset caused.
She said: “This was not our intention.
Pre and post-Covid, our focus was and remains, on the entitlement of every child to a full-time education.
“We want all children to be in school every day . . . and we hope parents will work with us to ensure this is the case.”
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