To tell you the truth, we laughed as we drove past.
You seem to feel that we do not take our childrens education seriously because we decide to take them out during term time.
As some have explained, they are limited to certain weeks holidays due to their jobs. They want to and deserve to spend precious time with their children whenever they can and if this means taking them out from school and having quality family time on a holiday then so be it.
Doing the above most certainly does not mean that they are failing as a parent.
Our DC have learned so much during our family holidays which yes, have been taken during school times.
Let me give you a little example. Last autumn we were going to centerparcs in Holland. We stopped at Arnhem, and learned all about the war, visited a museum, visted some battlefields and war graves. Then we had a frantastic time trying various sports which we would not usually do, as well as learning a bit of a foreign language, using and learning the value of the Euro, just to name but a few things.
On the way back, they learned some french from the hypermarket by asking for various foods at the delicatessen.
Not exactly amind numbing week off school.
The education of my children never has and never will be placed entirely in the hands of the teachers at school. We, as parents are perfectly capable of educating too you know. It seems to me that some people believe that the classroom is the ONLY place a child will ever learn