article_snippet: School children around the country will be watching tomorrow's once-in-a-decade solar eclipse on TV due to safety fears.
article_snippet: Pupils at a number of schools around Britain will be kept indoors tomorrow during the solar eclipse over fears
article_snippet: Mother-of-two Jen Palmer, from Worthing, West Sussex, tweeted: 'Hands up who is rebelling against school rules tomorrow and sending Mother-of-two Jen Palmer, from Worthing, West Sussex kids in late having watched the Eclipse?'
article_snippet: And Paul Towner, a father from Reading, Berkshire, wrote: 'Should I take my son to school late so my son can watch the Eclipse?
article_snippet: Isabel Stevenson, a mother-of-four from Glasgow, added: 'So not happy about secondary school my kids go to doing NOTHING for solar eclipse tomorrow!
article_snippet: Pupils who are absent from class will be penalised as normal, and Greenfaulds High School has no plans in place for viewing the Eclipse as it happens, either by video, or by projection. '
article_snippet: Parents in other areas say Parents in other areas have been left running around after schools only announced today that children would have to bring children own 'eclipse-viewing glasses'.
article_snippet: Pupils around Britain also went online to complain after some were told the blinds in Pupils around Britain classrooms would be closed during the Eclipse and others said others would be shown a recording of the event in the afternoon.
article_snippet: Unless there's one adult to one child, you can't [risk it].' The Department for Education has said what schools do for the eclipse is a matter for individual head teachers to decide.
article_snippet: Would you let your child watch the solar eclipse?
article_snippet: Would you let your child watch the solar eclipse?