Out of school for a day - what would you do?

[Wrongintherightway]

Posting for opinions,

Going on a holiday of a lifetime at Easter, flights are Friday morning (the day both my ds break up for Easter hols)

Would you please phone them in sick for the day or be honest and tell school we are going on an adventure?

Both ds have over 99% attendance this school year (one at primary and one at high school)

Be honest. Lies are usually found out and you'll look really silly.

Just be honest. There is nothing wrong with what you are doing.

If you were a manager at work and one of your employees phoned in sick the day before they went on a 'holiday of a lifetime' would you believe them?

If not, there's your answer.

Honesty is the best policy.

Just tell them you're going on holiday. Have a lovely time!

Be honest. I think it's an awful thing to put on the children to have to lie about what they are doing. It's one day, likely the school won't be bothered.

If it s the last day it s likely a short one and they wont be doing much.
Be honest or it will come back to bite you when dc start telling everyone after the break. If you ve got other parents on fb etc you would have to police putting up lovely holiday pics etc.

Tell the school, it's wrong to tell your children to lie to them. Are you lying to your employer about having the day off for a holiday?

Yup be honest with them. Unless the children don’t mention the holiday at all then the school will know anyway

Be honest. After one of my friends died I took the children out for the day to go to a theme park and I wrote ‘life is short’ on the form for absence.
They knew the situation as she had been a parent at the school.
And the kids always tell their friends/ teachers !

Why would you lie?

School are always sceptical of one day illness just before a holiday - why lie its only 1 day.

I had a student with 'chicken pox' for the last week of term - sadly he had been making a fuss about having to have vaccinations to go on his holiday to Tunisia and his friends were discussing it loudly in my lesson!

Be honest.
Why break down trust with the school?
You won't get fined for one day anyway.

Just tell them

Just tell them! We did similar and I handed in an absence request form- I said to the head 'I know you can't authorise it, but they'll not be in school that day anyway'. He was fine about it, agreed that he couldn't authorise it but 'have a fantastic time'. It meant the school knew the children wouldn't be in.

One day's absence won't trigger a fine (not sure if it's universal, but in our authority it's 8 sessions - four days - of unauthorised absence in a rolling ten week period).