To not send my children to school because I need to fly ?

Yip I think Ops male, is ex has tried to get him to do some parenting, and hes dumped the kids with Granny.
I'll be willing to bet Mums got the kids back because she won't want them missing school.

Ill add I'm assuming they are in England so still have a few weeks to summer.

I don't suppose we will ever know what happened because @Paticake seems to have flown away.

I'm amused that you think OP is female 🤣

Did she say 2 weeks?Must have missed that bit. But doubt if Granny would have them for 2 weeks. Dh surely would be better by then and able to take over as pre arranged.

I think people are thinking Granny.takes the kids to the Dads house and they travel to school from there. Not that she makes a 4hr round trip every day.

Its two full weeks of school in the middle of a term, unfair to the kids to miss out on that amount of learning, it's also a long time for Granny to entertain them without spending a fortune taking them places or have them zombified starring at screens.

Some of the replies make me laugh. Is poor Granny meant to travel 4 hours round trip to take them to school!?She clearly says her poor mum is 2 hours away. And Mum may have her reasons for not being able to upsticks and go to daughters house. It was all very last minute.
Frankly if anyone takes a job they should be committed. Missing a few days of school wouldn't make a scrap of difference.
Obviously a one off as she says her husband usually looks after them when she works away.
Lovely for Mum and kids .

To be honest, one day of school is probably not a big deal; but they’re going to have to make a 2-hour trip home again after, and are they going to school the morning after you get home? Is it just one day?

my instinct would be to ask your mum if she could come down the day of, stay over, and you would treat her to a big dinner or a massage or something when you get back?

Thank you so much for updating me. I only replied 1 minute after the OP was published, and after that, it was edited to include this '2 hours away' information, as can be seen by the history.

My follow up responses within the thread do address this additional detail, and I didn't go hours worrying about it until I saw your very insightful reply.

Of course this isn't on. Op need to put in place other options, either pay someone or re-arrange some sort of back up and plan for these things.

We had to pay because we had no back up or family nearby. Very rare we needed anything, but when we did we had to arrange it.

Now and again is fine, particularly in years without formal exams.

But this isn't a 'now and again' issue. OP is shipping their kids off to their mum for 2 weeks, missing school, so they can go work away. After only being home for a weekend after more weeks working away.

It's not like they're being taken out of school to go travelling and embark on enriching experiences, making memories with their parent. They're being dumped on a grandparent to probably do shit all for 2 weeks until they return. It's not being done in the kids best interests.

OP has said two weeks away , not sure where one
day came from .

Yes, Irish.

Same and I would be extremely surprised if this was a mother. Not that mothers don’t travel with work (I do) just more that they wouldn’t do that kind of job unless they had extensive support systems in place.

Fathers often have the luxury of doing what they want and having the other parent pick up the slack

I am taking it that many of us saying the same thing about school attendance are perhaps Irish ??

The approach to schooling was a big factor in me moving home from London.

I assume OP is dad who works away and who hasn’t seen his kids for awhile. Mum has burnt out doing everything and asked for help and his solution is to go on another trip and send the kids 2 hours away to his Mums

at least that is my reading of it

Totally agree. OP is purposefully vague and comes across as pretty egotistical and pointlessly dramatic. I'm a big big hypocrit here but I wish that hardly anyone contributed to this thread.

Obviously it is illegal and not ok for kids to miss two weeks of school. Either the ill parent steps up or the working parent cancels work trip or the grandmother moves into the kids' house so she can look after them and do school runs. The children need to be the priority here.

This is going to be one of those cryptic threads that runs for weeks despite the OP never returning.

This is fine. Look from the other parent’s perspective:

“I’m unwell and can’t do the school run. Am I unreasonable to expect my partner to cancel her international business trip to take the kids to school?”

Right, so your children’s father lives abroad/on the other side of the country and is having some kind of mental health crisis…my first question is why you are the one that has to deal with this, seeing as you’re separated and clearly live far away? Where are his own family and friends?

Second question - if you’ve already been away for weeks (assuming due to work), who has been looking after the kids in this time? How have they been going to school? Surely this arrangement could just continue.

Third question, is this really a sustainable lifestyle if you’re away for weeks on end? Who is bringing up your children?

So, by your reckoning, no one needs to go to school for the whole summer term. Yay! Holidays from Easter to September!
"Do you what you need to do and don't give your children another thought."

That's partly why I suggested they made their way to Ops house.

It's not just about the fine, missing 2 weeks in the middle of a term is crazy. Unfair on the kids and teachers. It also means the kids are out of routine and not seeing friends.

I'm assuming we are talking England where there's another month to the end of term. I'm Scotland we finish up the middle of next week.

Also not in UK, and agree. The hysteria around keeping kids off now and again is weird.

One off family emergency due to illness is fine imo.

I think under the circumstances it can be described as a family emergency. Same would happen if you had already left on your trip and your partner became ill and the kids had to stay with Grandparents. Schools understand, it's not ideal but ensuring your children are safe with someone you trust is more important than a day of school.