How about if a paedophile inadvertently abducts your child as he/she makes her way to class?

Mind you, the child would have possibly sinned in the eyes of your maker, so might have to think of another one?

No it wasn't. It was introduced precisely to prevent the situation kirkstaller is seeking to take advantage of. Too many middle-class parents pulling their kids out of school to take advantage of cheaper holidays.

You're not suggesting that you'd be prepared to bear false witness to save a few quid on your holidays are you?

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?


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?

I can give you an example of what doesn't - saving a few quid when the same holiday is available outside of term time.

Wrong. It was introduced because taking children out of class for a holiday disrupts the education of the entire class. There are separate mechanisms for dealing with serial truants.


So schools shouldn't care about their performance?

Cool.

just ring them up the day before and say there ill, thats what i did when i saved £895 for a trip to disneyland

As I said above, why bother? You clearly don't care about the impact on your kids so why worry about what the school says?

Can you give me an example of what does?

Ask jesus, he should be able to help you lie to your kids' school