To take DD out of school for one day

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

She has just gone back today after the christmas holiday and I am planning to keep her off on Wednesday and take her to see some ugly troll scarers. We are leaving Switzerland in the summer and I really want to see them. Am I being U? She is 8.7 and doesn't have any important lessons on this day. She will miss swimming but that doesn't really matter.
It is the sort of thing she'll remember for the rest of her life (I hope) so, AIBU?

YANBU but what is an "ugly troll scarer" can we have some on mumsnet ?

What the bloody hell is an ugly troll scarer? Sounds horrific!

I have no idea what an ugly troll scarer is... do you mean you are spending a day on MN with her?

I don't think YABU. A day she will remember for ever beats a day at school.

These (fingers crossed are ugly troll scarers), some aren't ugly although they look it to me.
www.urnaesch-tourismus.ch/e/brauchtum/alter_silvester.htm

UANBU take her to the troll thing (unless she struggles at school in which case possibly not)

I don't know why I feel I need validation, I'd already more or less decided that we would. She struggles with boredom at school unfortunatley so my way of looking at it is that she may as well do something that could possibly hold her interest.

YANBU.

Something she will remember forever beats school any day. It is only one day.

It really annoys me when people say that taking a child out of school will make them fall behind unless of course, they are doing very important GCSE stuff which is not the case here or are doing it excessively.

At our school, not all days are filled with sums and reading. Sometimes they go on a trip to somewhere that is not particularly educational, rehearse school plays, charity football goal things, making calendars.

We are going to Disneyland in March and I will be taking DD out for 2 days. She will be 6.

YANBU. I'm a teacher so you have official validation of your decision.
A few days really don't hurt and a single day is a real treat. Have fun!

My friend has never forgotten the day his dad turned up at the train station when he was on his way to school, got him in the car and spent the day at toysrus/cinema/pizza hut for lunch.

He said he only did it once the whole time he was at school but it was the best day ever!

Let's start a new tradition - I love the idea .

sounds fab! Enjoy! x

YANBU...there should indeed be a national ugly troll scarer day, so we can all go.

I took all 3 of mine out of school/nursery once to go and visit FC...shhhhh.

YANBU,I am Swiss and Had no idea what you were talking about before seing your link. I have never seen them in real life and feel that I have missed something important, just take her there!

(Maybe you hire one to scare the birds in your garden as well!)

Gorionine, we don't have a garden and the birds don't come to the balcony. I can't wait till fastnacht starts properly, I may go to Luzern and have an all nighter (you'll know what I am talking about)

sorry, I thought you were the poster thst did not like birds!

I was listening to some guggenmusik the other day and went all nostalgic!

I am the poster who doesn't like birds, I would go as far as to say I am phobic about them. My dh was asked to join the guggiband last year. I was so proud although a bit unsure of why they wanted him. I love fastnacht and, have taken dd out of school to see that too.

I've just booked the train tickets, we leave the platform at 07.05 and arrive at 10.40 something. I'll make sure to try to post some photographs of ugly troll scaring

Update, I am a bit miffed at her school. I told the office staff yesterday that she wouldn't be in school tomorrow. One woman was fine, but the stupid other one insisted that I made a formal request to the head. I declined. I could have kept her off and phoned in sick but didn't. I despair sometimes.

YANBU, have fun. But next time there is a strike, please don't be one of the people posting on here that teachers are selfish by making children miss out on all the important education they should be receiving that day Thanks

So long as you don't go on about all the important stuff she's missing if her teacher ever takes a day off for training or because she's ill, or sits them in front of a DVD for the afternoon.......

And so long as you don't lie to the school or expect her to lie to the school about where she is.....

Oh, so I am not going bonkers!

Have fun and let us know how much your DD enjoyed it![jalous emoticon]

I promise not to go on about all the important stuff she is missing (she won't miss anything) and I certainly wouldn't moan about teachers. DH is one himself.
I got us both a balaclava yesterday, the wind is absolutely piercing. She was running around this morning, totally naked saying she was a nudey ninja and this is how she's going tomorrow. I assured her she wasn't.

at nudey ninja

Well, we had a fabulous time and I've now got a cheese twitch. I ate so much Appenzel I think it has affected my neural pathways. It was a really great event, apart from the 4km route we had to follow in knee deep snow. DD thinks she is special because I imagine she's the only one from her school to have seen it. The highlight for her was teh incontinent dog sitting in a bag next to us on the train journey. The owner keep lifting it up and wiping his tiny winkle with a hankie [vom emoticon]. She told me this morning that she'll tell her class all about that.
Next unauthorised absence will be for fastnacht in Luzern

My word, I've just clicked on the DM and found this
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.html
really hope it works.