Taking DS out of school for an afternoon

[sarasusie123]

My Dad has booked tickets to see Grease in the westend for my DDs 10th birthday. They are ment to be going this Friday, I told DD not to mention it to anyone at school as she shouldn't be taking the time off, I was going to say she had opticians appointment and take her out at lunch time, however she has just informed me that She told her teacher she was going on Friday. What do I do?

Write a letter requesting permission explaining the situation - gift from grandparents - I can't see it being a huge problem for most schools.

Nor me. Just explain. What can they do about it? Sack you?
I'd have more of a problem expecting a 10yo to lie about it. That would totally stress out my DD.

why on earth would you get her to lie about it? that's giving her a much worse message than not going to school on a Friday afternoon

I can't see any school kicking up a fuss about it - they wouldn't like being lied to though

They will probably put it down as unauthorised absence, our school says that special occasions have to be genuinely special and couldn't be on another date eg family wedding, sports coaching with a national figure. Trips/tickets don't count. It depends how srict your school are - the problem is you need to take her out, so you may get the looks-could-kill when you go in!

By the way, I know lying shouldn't be condoned, but couldn't you say you are going after the optician?

No problem taking her out for something like this. Big, big problem lying about it and worse still expecting your DD to lie about it.

It may well result in an unauthorised absence but that's school's problem, not yours as long as she has an otherwise good attendance record.

I didn't ask her to lie, just not to mention it. I ended up going in to see her class teacher and he said it was fine. So no worries, she's on her way now.