to take my kids out of school tomorrow for the Olympic Parade?

[Bossybritches22]

It's a one off...we would have to leave mega early for the train journey, they would be missing a whole day off - they are doing A-levels & GCSE's respectively so I'm a bit

Haven't even mentioned it to them yet......

But once in a while you have to do impulsive things don't you?

I just feel that having so thoroughly enjoyed the summer holidays with the Olympic spirit & been glued to all the performances as we couldn't get tickets, it would be a nice way to finish off.

AIBU or really WWYD?

Well as it turned out the train tickets were an astronomical price so my sensible head took over!

DD1 came home with the period from hell so good call.

That would have been NO fun in that crowd.

Had the telly on all afternoon & enjoyed seeing it all while polishing off my laundry mountain

Oh for heaven's sake, missing a day of school here and there for historic occasions like this is nothing as long as neither of your offspring are struggling at school and they are both willing to make up the time! My attendance at college was only just over 33% (I was ill a lot, working too many nights per week, maintaining long distance relationship with my now-DH, and the lessons moved too slowly due to mixed ability classes) and I was the only person in the year to get straight As, one of which was in a subject I was teaching myself. I'm not saying that it is right for everybody to do that (in fact, if my school had been better it might not have been right for me to do that), but it shows that if you're prepared to catch up in a structured, meticulous way in your own time then you can actually get more out of independent study than you can in a classroom. It definitely helped me to develop some essential study skills for university - I was so used to self-guided research that 1st year was an absolute breeze!

In addition to which, they (along with the rest of our generation) will be paying this event off for a long time to come - they may as well have some positive, first-hand memories of it .