Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:17 am  

Indeed, if we started taking 4 days off here and there in term time for a cheaper holiday, would that be ok?

[Kosh]

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:21 am  

rover49 wrote:

I think its more about keeping school stats high rather than the needs of the kids.

It's both. Indeed, the two are inextricably linked.

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:14 am  

RooRoo wrote:

Indeed, if we started taking 4 days off here and there in term time for a cheaper holiday, would that be ok?

That'd be well smart innit cos we'd get a supply teacher in innit. We could doss about then.


Sir.

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:30 am  

Mintball wrote:

... or (imagine this) holidays in Todmorden because someone my father know lent him a cottage there...

It's all a question of perception.
When I lived in London, I knew a Parisienne who worked at an employment agency who had lived in Tod-Mor-den (as she pronounced it) and absolutely loved the place.

It grows on you.

Yes, I know mould does too.

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:47 am  

What would Jesus do?

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:48 pm  

Kosh wrote:

It's not just about the kids that go, as mentioned earlier.

Do you have any links to these reports that it's detrimental to the other children?

I know for certain it hasn't been detrimental to mine.

[Kosh]

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:23 pm  

G1 wrote:

Do you have any links to these reports that it's detrimental to the other children?

I know for certain it hasn't been detrimental to mine.

Nope. I read the physical papers when I was a governor and have no idea where to find them online.

The idea that because something hasn't happened to you personally it must never happen to anyone is a basic logical fallacy.

[Kosh]

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:32 pm  

Incidentally, if Gove gets his way then pretty soon schools will not be able to authorise any absence whatsoever. At least that might stop folk moaning at them for doing their job.

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:19 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

It's all a question of perception.
When I lived in London, I knew a Parisienne who worked at an employment agency who had lived in Tod-Mor-den (as she pronounced it) and absolutely loved the place.

It grows on you.

Yes, I know mould does too.

My memories of the place aren't helped by some spectacular incidents with my father during those holidays – let's just say he was addicted to prescription barbiturates at the time.

Re: Taking kids out of school for holidays : Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:32 pm  

Kosh wrote:

Nope. I read the physical papers when I was a governor and have no idea where to find them online.

The idea that because something hasn't happened to you personally it must never happen to anyone is a basic logical fallacy.

Well, you want me to accept a premise. Regardless of the accuracy of the original data you've read, the premise is merely based upon a recollection of a document you recall reading.

You've based much of your argument against parents taking their children on holiday on the premise that is is detrimental to the other school children.

With the greatest of respect, I am not willing to accept that it is based solely upon your recollection of what you read in an unnamed document.

Can you at least expand upon the theory of why my daughter's absence for four days before half term will be detrimental to the other children in her no doubt already overcrowded classroom?