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)

So, in summary.... if you take your kids to Disneyland in term time, you get arrested. If you take your daughter to Somalia for a bit of FGM, you get a diversity award.

^^ bollox ^^ you don't have a clue. I feel for your kids, if you have any

class teams become dissolved, and team projects fail.

stoopid parents breed stoopid kids. and the rest of society (childless or not) pays the cost.

Next thing is we'll need parenting classes. And who'll pay for that ?

some parents should be sterilised at birth,

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (06 Apr 2017 6.49pm)

Why the f*** can't people do what they are told to do?

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?