To refuse to pull the kids out of school just because MIL entered them into a competition?

[Spidermama]

Last time MIL visited from the midlands she brought with her four copies of her local paper she had collected, one for each of my kids, because they had in them a drawing competition the prize for which was going to see a play at her local theatre.

Well one of my kids won the competition (quite a few kids won) and the theatre has offered them all tickets for this play.

Nice idea and I know it was really sweet of her to collect the competition stuff for her grandchildren BUT ... the theatre is 200 miles away (a three hour drive), the AND DH will be working away for 6 weeks so I'm expected to drive them there.

I don't fucking want to. DH is annoyed now.

So AIBU, or what?

Well at our school the Head Mistress would refuse to sanction the time off.

Could you perhaps say your HM has refused ?

That's a good idea phrenology, tell DH and MIL that if you take them out of school it wil go down on their record as unauthorised absence, which gets reported to the LA, and you don't feel a theater trip warrants that when you could go to the theatre on a non school day.

I've just left a message for the theatre. I'm going to ask them if we can swap our tickets for a December date when DH is back then he can do the whole thing and make it at a weekend. I hope they'll go along with this.