Who feels their own education was damaged by the holidays they had in term time?

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Judging by the strength of opinion on MN, there must be loads of you.
Speak up!

For the children the end of terms are fun, and not a time they would want to be out.

I've never taken my children out at the end of term, it's the best week!!!

I don't think it should be a blanket everyone has that week off but I do agree with other posters that the flexibility that seemed to be there would be good

Adults have a different view, to them the end of term is a waste of time- sometimes you need to look at things from the eyes of a child.

Myself and older brother had 100% attendance up until the later years of high school when our mother became poorly, but we couldn't afford holidays therefore never did holidays. Younger sister and brother however had some time off for what we saw as ridiculous reasons, again no holidays, and both now in their 20's can barely read and struggle with maths etc.

I know it's not the same but it does go to show that big chunks of missed learning can/does affect some DC.

We often had time out of school to go abroad. Especially as dad went on frequent business trips and if it was anywhere intresting we would all go along.l No problem with getting the time off school and all had a decent education and career.

Have done exactly the same with my dc. No problems thus far with gaining good A levels and GCSE's or Uni offers.

Mountain out of a mole hll all this fining and stuff.

The only thing I would say is we never expect the teacher to explain anything missed, nor would we ever ask for them to set work whilst we are away. That would be down to us.