Violent Badger wrote:
:lol:
Comments like that always make me laugh. School teachers / headmasters etc all seem to think they are some kind of omnipotent beings who have the power to run all aspects of your childrens lives.
Ummm... no. You aren't.
Once again, the school has no power to 'run all aspects of your children's lives'. All it can do is authorise the absence or not. What happens after that is between the parents and the local authority, which in turn is governed by what policies the government of the day wants to implement.
Democracy's a bitch, eh?
Violent Badger wrote:
My advice to the OP would be take your kids on the 4 day holiday. Ring the school up before you go and say your kids won't be in for a few days as they are ill. If the school get arsey about it on their return politely tell them they were ill, they are better now and back all ready for school again. Job done.
If you seriously believe that any school would fall for that then you're deluded. Or that any child would be able to go along with the deception.
I don't understand the fuss anyway. If someone cares so little about their child's education that they'd rather save a few quid on a holiday they're presumably not bothered what the school thinks either?
