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Post by Hugh Jorgan on Jan 15, 2014 21:09:51 GMT
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Post by Squeekster on Jan 15, 2014 22:04:57 GMT
They should fine the holiday companies that put the price up by 3 times the cost when the kids are on half term!
Been looking at a holiday park for May the half term week is £600+ the week before and after are around £189.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2014 22:31:18 GMT
I took mine out for 3 days at the start of September last year. After initially giving me the old 'impacting your child's education blah blah blah' they then didn't make too much fuss about it.
Strangely I found, when they decide that they want a fucking strike, or an INSET day, it then miraculously doesn't impact upon my kids' education, but there you go.
I'm not sure that there's a way to police the Holiday companies in order to make them comply with some kind of code. It's supply and demand, they'll argue, and they'd be right.
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Post by salopstick on Jan 15, 2014 22:51:18 GMT
We have to ask (beg) to take ours out
I thought fuck that.
I wrote to the head stating I WAS taking my kids out of school 1 day to take them to my work for the day. (Christmas carol service)
I said I took days off to attend parent student lunches etc and it was important that they do the same.
No objection
This story is a joke, he booked the holiday before the new rules came in
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Post by Yorkshirepotter on Jan 16, 2014 7:08:37 GMT
We've just filled in the form requesting special permission from the head to have a week off in march. Its utter bollocks.
My eldest is 6 years old. What is she going to miss at that age that will have any impact at all?
We're going to Disney in Paris, shes learning a bit of French at home because, in her words she wants to 'talk to mickey, the princesses, waitresses and buy her own toys in the shops'and we are looking at spending a day in Paris itself.
I cant wait for the school to tell me what she will learn at school in a week that will be a more usefull life experience than that at the age of 6.
I could understand at 13 to 16 when theyre working towards exams and coursework (although I still disagree).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2014 13:33:30 GMT
No, they don't like it one bit. Seems a bit OTT when they are still infants, agree about the exams though. The increased costs of holidays and travel between terms is borderline scandalous, and it's always been like that.
It's essentially penalising families for having kids, and is worse than the pay-day loans companies under discussion and criticism just the other day on here. The travel industry has been regulated for as long as I can remember too, but this example of sharp practice never seems to get a mention. Maybe it falls back onto International Airlines as they seem to do anything they want.
When I was working in the UAE for F1, we flew our Jack (the ex's son) out to Abu Dhabi for the F1GP (which was a bit of a dream for him). I wrote a letter to the school explaining about Arab life and how he loves Motorsport and had been into F1 since he was very young, a good learning opportunity and cultural experience etc, they wrote back and said that it was OK on the proviso he could perhaps give a little talk to class on muslim culture when he got back.
I wrote back and told them to stop being so bloody ridiculous, he would have been under horrible pressure.
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Post by Northy on Jan 16, 2014 14:34:25 GMT
Maybe they ought to give the rest of the country 13 weeks holiday a year to match school holidays, the country would be fucked.
Why do MP's not return until October either?
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Post by ukcstokie on Jan 16, 2014 16:31:27 GMT
Was this in anybody's manifesto?
Probably not.
Barstools.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 16, 2014 17:08:03 GMT
School I work at in Plymouth takes a sensible approach I think. Children of military families where dad/mum are returning from deployment are allowed to take 2 weeks outside school holidays providing they commit to catch up missed work. Kids up to and including year nine can take time off for holidays unapproved but parents are warned not to come bleating if their offspring fail exams. After year 9 holidays are never approved. We never issue fines unless students are persistently absent and parents make no effort to get their kids in.
IMO most kids going on holiday is an education in itself and also indicates mostly that a family unit is supportive to the child. If it was me as a parent I would simply send my child back with a sick note. Most of the problem is OFSTED inspections include attendance statistics so schools are very keen to keep attendence figures high. Plus more and more kids take GCSE exams from year 9 upwards putting immense pressure on them to attend all lessons.
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