How detrimental is missing a few days of highschool?

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Trying to book next years holiday for Easter and it is £1300 more to go on the saturday than the wednesday which means DS missing 3 days of year 7. I'm inclined to think no big deal as a one off but haven't been at highschool for many moons!
Would this be terrible?

Not at all.

Not recommended in Year 10 or 11 but in Year 7 no biggie.
You do need to consider whether or not you're going to be fined for unauthorised absence and what the cost of that would be. But probably considerably less than £1300 for 3 days.

Thanks, I don't think there will be a fine as its 3 days not 5 which is threshold. Even if it was, that would be an extra £400ish.

If you listen the school - the children will spend their whole lives being jobless and will probably turn to drugs

If you listen to common sense - no impact at all

(lighthearted post BTW)

According to DD... as long as you are willing to catch up work, its fine. For example she missed a few chapters of the book in literature, so had to borrow the book to read them at home.

Thanks, we are going at the start of Easter so he would have plenty of time to catch up on what he misses.