There was more frustration for Fife parents on Tuesday when Tayport Primary School shut for a second day.
Tayport was one of 10 schools across the region to be closed on Monday as a result of heating problems.
Fife Council said the centralised heating control system was still at last year’s settings, when there was an extra holiday for the royal wedding.
While the other nine schools reopened on Tuesday morning, Tayport primary remained closed despite an update on Monday evening saying it would be open.
The council subsequently revealed Tayport was closed because of boiler issues, which were fixed to allow the schoo to finally reopen on Wednesday.
The Courier was inundated with comments from irate parents who struggled to juggle work and childcare arrangements.
One mother-of-three, who runs a baking business from her home in Tayport, said she has lost two days’ wages as a result.
Mary Jane Duncan runs Kitschnbake and has two children at the school.
She said: ”I’m supposed to be working from home but I can’t do it. I’ve lost two days’ wages. And parents’ night had to be cancelled, which has caused more problems.
”My husband works shifts and it’s not easy for him to get to parents’ night as it is.”
She added: ”I know the closure has caused a lot of problems for other parents who work, but Tayport is a nice place we all know each other and we wouldn’t leave anyone stuck.
”So, we’ve all been helping each other out. I grabbed my friend’s kids yesterday so that she could go to work.”
The council said the royal wedding was to blame for the glitch that meant hundreds of pupils had an unexpected day off on Monday. Because the day was declared a national holiday last year, the system was programmed so the heating would not go on.
The council forgot to change the settings this year and on Monday morning the system had to be manually overridden.
The council said the schools affected were closed because the buildings had not warmed up enough for the start of lessons.
Ms Duncan said: ”Why on earth did somebody not pick up on this?”
The local authority came under fire on Monday for announcing the school closures at the last minute, when many parents were already on their way to work.
Dundee University lecturer Catriona Macaulay, who is also a Tayport mother, said parents were again given short notice on Tuesday morning.
She said: ”I totally understand that these things happen. The irritating thing was that having received an email last night to say it would be open, at 8.21am this morning I got an email to say it was shut again.”
There was some sympathy for the council, with Kerri O’Neil writing on The Courier’s Facebook page: ”If the temperature of the school falls below a certain level, then children have to be sent home. I would rather have my children home where they are warm.”
But others questioned just how cold the school could have been on what were two bright, sunny mornings.
Council school estate services manager Louise Playford said: ”The boilers are now on and the heating is working. The school will reopen as normal on Wednesday. We apologise for the disruption this has caused.”