day off school for family day out

[ghostspirit]

would you let your children have a day of school for a day out?

yeah the thread has made me laugh a bit. only glanced though could not be bothered to reply.

Maybe next time don't bother to post either if you're that dismissive of everyonr who took the time to reply to your thread.

rhonda just because i post does not mean i have to agree with people. i also do not have to reply to every poster

Who said you had to agree with every poster? Or reply to every poster?

I was referring to the fact that you said you only glanced through your own thread and "couldn't be bothered to reply".

I'm with PP who can't work out why you bothered to post in the first place, seeing as how you had clearly already decided what to do and obviously just wanted to start a pointless thread.

well yes of course i was going to go i already had the tickets not going to waste them. i just wondered what people thought. im sure alot of threads are pointless.

Not been on one as pointless as this for some time.

oh well least there are not to many pointless thread taking up to much room then

Nine pages of yours was nine pages too much.

between me and you we could make it 10 pages

It isn't something I would do often, dc is in KS3, and has, over the years, missed an afternoon due to a wedding, a morning due to a funeral (school trip in the afternoon and a good memory on a crappy day, otherwise it would have been the day off), and the this year a day sick to go on holiday. Their attendance is never below 98%, and attitude at and towards school is positive. So weekly, monthly or even yearly, no. Once a key stage, probably.

The reason you're able to have a lovely quiet day out by breaking the rules is that everyone else is obeying the rules and keeping their children in school. To me, that's selfish and inconsiderate, but loads of other people don't seem to agree.

No. There are 175 days in the year when you can have a 'family day out'.
YABU to take your dc from school on one of the 190 they get at school.

I actually think that it indicates a rather controlling personality to get so angry and accusatory of really unpleasant character traits because someone "breaks the rules". If you are so sure your way is the right that way shouldn't that be enough for you?

I wish some of you could have been through what I and many parents I know have been through with our children with SN I.e. that local authorities are only too happy to bend and swerve the rules together when it comes to providing the required provision for our children to access the desperately important education you all speak of. The LA have no place for my child, I am forced to home educate him, where are the rules now, for him? It's all so one sided that I find these threads laughable. You haven't got a clue, you really haven't.

Anyway you should all be grateful that these places will be less crowded during the holidays when you all go because of how many of us are willing to risk a fine and take our children out of school during term time to go . It's beneficial for you too

If you are so sure your way is the right that way shouldn't that be enough for you?

If only it had been enough for the OP, we wouldn't have had nine pages of tedium on this thread

Well you don't have to keep posting do you? You've engaged rather a lot on this thread considering it's apparently so tedious .

I doubt nine pages would suddenly become interesting if one person stopped stopped posting.

And if someone posts a comment to me, I do tend to reply.

"I doubt 9 pages would suddenly become interesting if one person stopped posting"

Well you never know......

I'll give it a try.

Great

I took dd2 out of school for a day a few weeks ago. Dd1 had an in service day and we got a cheaper weekend in Centreparcs. Great times School were fine.

oh still not made it to 10 pages :(

its been done now anyway. and i may consider it again at some point. might be seen as just a day out at a theme park but it was not just that to me. anyway best do something constructive :)

Yes. It was a scorcher of a day on Tuesday. I let on we were going to school as normal then past by and headed to the beach for ice cream and a swim. We're not in the UK and the last week of school is fun and games. Part of the fun of it was 'bunking' off school. They loved it, plan on making it an annual event.

I actually think that it indicates a rather controlling personality to get so angry and accusatory of really unpleasant character traits because someone "breaks the rules". If you are so sure your way is the right that way shouldn't that be enough for you?

If that's aimed at me, I'm not angry - I'm just answering the AIBU question that the original poster asked.

The fact remains, if you're gaining an advantage for yourself (getting a cheaper or less-stressed day out) by taking advantage of everyone else sticking to the rules, you're at best being cheeky and at worst being selfish.

Or you're being sensible. You do what you want, let others do what they want, and chill out. Makes no odds to you what my children and I do and when, so calling people selfish because they make different choices to you is just weird.