Pencils and paper so they don't miss out on "double colouring in"

It's the parent's call on this one. Take them out before GCSE's and that would be utterly mental, but I can't see the harm in 2 weeks when the girl has an over 90% attendance ratio.

Also a local comprehensive to here is running a skiing trip for the year 8 kids. That's one for the have and the have nots. That's educational how? It's a town where white or red wine with dinner means would you like Lambrini or Cherry Lambrini with your chips -so the ability to ski isn't going to be high on the list of things needed to survive in life. If it is that important not to miss schooling then do it over half term - or are the prices too high?

Depends on the holiday really. A week in Italy visiting the likes of Pompeii would contribute more to the education of the children than a week in school.

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So we are currently on 'holiday' in Canada which we took our 2 boys out of school for 1 week prior to easter so we could extend and have 3 weeks. The Mrs is Canadian and the boys haven't seen their Grandparents or Uncle for 6 years. We spent a week driving from Calgary to Winnipeg so they could see some of the country and are now at their grandparents. They've been to various museums and education centres here learning about the culture and we brought all their homework and also additional books to read and activity books to do which we make them do once a day. We told the school's we were taking them out and obviously didn't get authorisation but we have been trying to plan this trip for 2 years and this is the only time we've been able to get everyone's holiday to match. This is basically so they can see family they only get to see over Skype.

As we have taken them out of school though, I guess we are bad parents?

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Huh.

It's not anti-wealth. The point is it's skiing, it's not really educational is it but it's authorised by the school so it must be ok.

Yet when parents do that it's negligent.

The point I'm making is if the school wanted to give them an "educational week away" then I might suggest the Breacon Beacons, in December, learning to catch your own food to survive would be educational in the event of the apocalypse. But that involves a cold tent and is probably less appealing.

If the child's attendance is above 90% generally I would trust the parents to know the child and make the right call.

Edited by robdave2k (06 Apr 2017 5.53pm)

Having a few weeks off here or there is no big deal.

If a student has attendance level high enough and are having no trouble at school I see no problem.

What people forget is the terms andother breaks schools have are more of an issue just look at them they can go back for week and half then be off again they need to restructure it all.

The other thing is if you work out the hours spent at school to studying they really do not need all that time unless you have trouble with learning it's like college they make you do all that time full time for 1 year yet you could complete that same course at home in 2-3months.

School education is not everything a lot of what is learnt studying is not even used in real world so many youngsters that got top grades yet they are useless in work place

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This is basically the state saying that they can look after your child better than parents can. Not so in the vast majority of cases imo.

And no, i very much doubt that his kid ''will FAIL''. The only ''FAIL'' here seems to be numpties like yourself given the position of educating our children in the first place.............to around 20th in the global rankings????????????

You're pathetic.

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