WIBU to keep my son off school for this?

[Fantoosh]

So I had a hairdresser appointment this morning for 9.30. I desperately needed a cut and colour before going on holiday next week.

Unfortunately my dd was sick at 7.30am...although she seemed fine afterwards. This meant I had to keep her off school.
Given that the chances of getting another appointment in time for the hols was zero, was I bu to call in a sicky for my eldest son (14) this morning to watch her while I kept the appointment I had? Fridays are a half day at school anyway here.

My hair is looking great now but I don't know if I did the right thing.
What would you have done?

How can you possibly find fault with that?

Oh I bet they can!

Piper Autocorrect is your friend tonight!!!

Because sitting at home involved the other child staying off school! It wasn't "home vs salon" it was "home and other child off school vs sick child with you at your appointment".

You said you couldn't take her with you because she'd get bored in your earlier post.

It's done now, but really, it wasn't a choice between roots or DS staying off school, it was a choice between bored DD and DS staying off school.

And we are back to.the teens who are to. precious to help out every now and then.

precisely why my brother in law can't cook dinner without starring a fire.

Sorry haven't read the full thread but what does your DS think? Is he happy to leave his mates and school to babysit for his mum? Nice boy but won't make a good employee or husband, ( MiL woes ahead??)

Did he do it for you? Lovely lad - but not fair on him. Or des he not cre? does not bode well>

I am glad I am not the teacher working hard, thinking how to do the best for your son, hoping he will pass his GCSEs, encouraging him - thrown back in my face by a self obsessed mother.

Fuck it I am working two jobs and abandonning all hope of haircuts/clothes/lunches - anything for me - so that my kids can have a private education, (SN fo rmy son and LA don't give a shit). And you.....

Dinosaurs what's your point, the OP has said that was the case?

And that was OP's choice to make.

Just because it wouldn't fit with you and yours doesn't mean it is wrong for it to fit for the OP.

No I didn't

Sorry that was to Dino.

I said she would be better off resting than minding her Ps and Qs in the salon. I didn't say anything at all about her being bored. I wanted her to rest.

Nice boy but won't make a good employee or husband

You have got to be shitting me. You've based this off one incident?

Wipe that chip off your shoulder, just because you have a lifestyle with no breaks doesn't mean other people aren't entitled to them now and again

And thus it was ever known as flaming flamingoes

OP- how is your child's attendance generally? What percentage? I can't imagine a parent with such a casual attitude to absence ensuring excellent attendance the rest of the time.
And yes, teachers are still hard at it and yes, your son will have missed out on learning. Those gaps won't just affect that lesson either but are likely to impact lessons that follow where the missed content will become gaps in knowledge.

Children go to school to learn. If they are absent you can be assured that others will still be learning while they are not.

Fuck it I am working two jobs and abandonning all hope of haircuts/clothes/lunches - anything for me - so that my kids can have a private education, (SN fo rmy son and LA don't give a shit). And you.....

That's your choice. What's what you choose to do.

It's weird how those who support the ops choice have made it Into a thread about whether women are entitled to look nice/spend time and money on themselves. Of course they are, but not at the expense of education. It might be one morning but lessons are planned with important content and examining at all times of year, even in the summer. Why count you ring around some salons op and see if there was another that could fit you in without having to pull your son out of school?

Attendance is at 95%
He's had 10 absences in the last academic year...one of which was a week off with tonsilitis.
Hope that's acceptable.

P.s You nosy mare!

Whilst it's not the end of the world having one day off school, why couldn't your husband have stayed home if it was so important?

Confused and you really think one day is going to make a difference? Bloody hell.

He sounds like a frickin light weight. should have sent him.in with a supply of calippos and a bucket fir when.the ABS made him.sick. reactions to meds aren't contagious after all.

Half a day.

Half a day here, half a day there. It adds up, and yes it makes a difference.

Why stick to the rules at 1 school and break them in another? Almost suggests you value the youngest over the oldest?

How?

Yes thefixer you got me - it was driven by favouritism all along. You are so shrewd.

MN is full of such extremes, from those who are frothing about calling social services to those who are falling over themselves to let everyone know how relax and laid back they are.

In real life, most of us fall in the middle of the spectrum.