AIBU to keep my son off school tomorrow?

[BigCheese24]

Tomorrow is an English bank holiday. We live in Scotland. My DH and myself both work for an English bank so we’ve got the day off tomorrow. Because it’s not a Scottish bank holiday, school is on.

Weather looks to be fantastic tomorrow - should I give my son a cheeky day off & we go out and have some fun?

YABU - It’s a school day, send him to school.

YANBU - it’s a one off, have a family day out!

P.s. we don’t get fined in Scotland like they do in England (if that makes a difference? As I wouldn’t lie to the school I would tell the truth about why I was keeping him off.)

They’ve just gone back to school! Have an adults day; go out for lunch in peace.

What year is he in?

Send him in and go out for a child free lunch!

Dunno, some cheeky time with my husband would be more appealing. I love days like that.

They've just gone back! Take the day to do something as a couple!!

You are being very unreasonable...kids have only been back at school for a couple of weeks! Let him settle back in to the routine of school and have an adult day out with your dh

He’s only been back in school five minutes, op, seriously.
A “cheeky” day off 🙄

Life is short.

keep him off, but make sure you have a good day. Whatever that looks like for your family!

one day off school isn't going to do him any harm & all the better you can be honest with the school (sanity prevails).

It's a school day, so school for him and a leisurely lunch and bank holiday wander for you.

They’ve only been back about a week :/

YABU

i only have one at school now, s6 but I love the August bank holiday when they’re in school!

I would send him to school, have a lovely day with my DH and then do something fun with him after school (trampolining, swimming, whatever he likes).

I am all for taking a cheeky day off near the end of term but a week after they have been back ? You are taking the mic.

I’d have an adults only day as well, we had one last Tuesday and have managed to swing one again this Tuesday and we plan on making the most of this one too.

“Cheeky”? 🙄 Why not just go for lunch with your husband.

Did you plonk him in the playground when school closed in June just because you work for an English bank? Weird

YABU

You may as well just tell him school isn't important if you can find something better to do.

Send him to school and then have a relaxing day with your partner. I think that it's very irresponsible to do anything other than that.

Some of the replies are giving me such a laugh thanks guys haha

to answer some Q’s

He’s in Primary 4
he’s been back 2 weeks, this is week 3
and myself and my husband are just back from a weekend away (fri>sun) so that’s why we were looking to spend time with DS as we hadn’t over the weekend

I believe keeping your child off school for quality family time is a great idea, I think it’s a backward system that tells families they should feel guilty or wrong for doing so!

Yeah no. School isn’t optional.

Not just after the school holidays.

If you had taken a long weekend holiday together that would be different, but saying you want a family day as you had an adult weekend is a bit off really.

Was the bank holiday a surprise to you?

What do you mean? Like did I find out about it last minute? If so, no, my manager gave us all a big reminder on Friday to not come to work Monday haha

What message do you spend him if you take him out of school for a day out? You left him for a weekend and now you want to take him out of school so you can see him?

Yeah this is what my husband thinks. We own our own static caravan and we normally go there every bank holiday there is, infact that’s what we did last year and kept DS off school, however we’d promised it to other family at the beginning of the year for these dates (not realising it was a bank hol)

I think the message would be that family is most important of all?