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Could somebody talk me through it again why I should be the muppet who pays for full price holidays when everybody else at my dc's school...

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emkana · 16/12/2008 23:15

... takes their children out for holidays regularly.

I used to feel strongly that this is WRONG, but now I'm thinking why don't I do it as well?

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Clary · 23/12/2008 01:23

to find self agreeing with Xenia

I wish people wouldn't go on about the holiday companies ripping people off by charging more in the school hols.

Why shouldn't they? They are running a business, not a charity. More people want to go away in school hols (not some of the people on this thread maybe ) so they can charge more.

The fact that even with the prices they charge, it is hardest to book a hol in end-July/August tells you something, no?

I don't see a campaign against the firms who have increased the price of, for example, a Nintendo DS in the weeks immediately before Christmas. They do it because they know they will still sell them even tho they may be cheaper in Jan.

It's not as tho a Nintendo DS - or indeed a holiday in Mallora - is some kind of God-given right.

poinsettydog · 23/12/2008 07:50

Of course there is no right to a cheaper holiday, clary, and of course holiday companies are businesses.

However, people moan on here about schools not allowing time off far more than they moan about 'rip-off' holiday companies. The business of schools is education for all and time off for holidays disrupts that.

Anna8888 · 23/12/2008 08:00

poinsettydog - the point was an educational trip - the schools I know are happy to keep places open for educational trips.

nappyaddict · 23/12/2008 08:00

Learning is about so much more than the national curriculum. As long as it is not for more than 2 weeks and they aren't taking important exams I don't see the problem.

melissa75 · 23/12/2008 19:14

needmorecoffee...your posts are worrying, what are you teaching your children by saying "you don't have to go to school if you don't want to"? What kind of life lesson is that, when they are adults, they will think they don't have to go to work if they don't want to, or they don't have to do anything they don't want to...if life was like that, it would be a great life, but unfortunately thats extremely unrealistic...and it does your children no favours to teach them that "if you don't want to do it, then you don't have to" I would hate to be the employer of someone with that attitude to life.

Litchick · 24/12/2008 13:19

See Melissa I would love to be thsat persons emplyer because I would know they really wanted to be there.
I always tell my kids that there are very few things in life you 'just have to do'.
You need to think widely and laterally to make life work for you.
And yes, my kids 'choose' to go to school, do their prep, brush their teeth etc.

Katiestar · 29/12/2008 23:15

i really think don't think it is worth (in our case as a family of 6) paying literally THOUSANDS more so they don't have a few days off school. At primary school they go over and over the same things again and again I can't see it realistically having any effect on their education at all.At secondary school they copy up the notes for the work they've missed and that doesn't seem to be a problem either.
What about independant schools which have many weeks fewer termtime than state schools.You don't see their results falling below state schools do you ?

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