Family's dream holiday in ruins

[Matt_B]

It should be, agreed.

I just don't think 1 or 2 weeks out of education are a great loss and the holiday has potentially great gains.

Then why not take it at the appropriate time?

 

[Melton Fox]

It should be, agreed.

I just don't think 1 or 2 weeks out of education are a great loss and the holiday has potentially great gains.

Regardless of what we think, it's against the law.

I want to stab people in the head that I don't like. I personally think it should be allowed. However, the fact that it's against the law of the land in which I live, I don't do it.

 

[bocadillo]

The education doesn't solely come from parents. simply being in an alien environment (even travellling to it) is an education. Being bitten by a mosquito and then suffering from rubbing the bite is an education etc...

These are educations that can just as easily happen out of school time and therefore not relevant to the discussion on whether children should be taken away during the term.

 

[spionfox]

I want to stab people in the head that I don't like. I personally think it should be allowed. However, the fact that it's against the law of the land in which I live, I don't do it.

Is that the only reason you don't do it - simply because it is against the law of the land?

I reckon your persona is just an act and that you do in fact have a moral compass - of sorts :icon_wink

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

when we were kids we used to alternate our holidays every year, 1 year staying in this country the next going abroad, in this country we went to butlins because it was aimed at kids and theres plenty to do without my folks having to keep a strict eye on us (them were the days :icon_roll), i think a lot of parents go abroad every year purely for their sake and not the kids but use the kids as an excuse, surely if they want to see the world etc they will do when theyre old enough and they wont remember too much if theyre young if they go abroad now - thought id add my bit :icon_bigg

 

[highland fox]

Good ol' Bruce Dickinson.

Agreed,I thought he was great in Bargain Hunt

 

[spionfox]

i think a lot of parents go abroad every year purely for their sake and not the kids

You may well have a point. In my case I go abroad to try and guarantee a modicum of decent weather - something that has been sadly lacking from these shores this year.

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

You may well have a point. In my case I go abroad to try and guarantee a modicum of decent weather - something that has been sadly lacking from these shores this year.

i agree the weather will have a factor in things

 

[Melton Fox]

Is that the only reason you don't do it - simply because it is against the law of the land?

I reckon your persona is just an act and that you do in fact have a moral compass - of sorts :icon_wink

You give me too much credit. Morality is no friend of mine.

 

[spionfox]

You give me too much credit. Morality is no friend of mine.

I did refer to a moral compass of sorts :icon_bigg

 

[FIF]

These are educations that can just as easily happen out of school time and therefore not relevant to the discussion on whether children should be taken away during the term.

These are educations that children should have and if for whatever reason their parents need to take holidays in term time I think that makes them relevant to the discussion and cost is a very relevant factor in order to go somewhere or not.

 

[FIF]

There are children in Leicester who have never seen a cow in its natural habitat - unbelievable but true.

 

[homer]

There are children in Leicester who have never seen a cow in its natural habitat - unbelievable but true.

Hardly the fault of the education system that one

And they are unlikely to see one on a beach holiday in Malaga

 

[Macky]

Hardly the fault of the education system that one

And they are unlikely to see one on a beach holiday in Malaga

I dunno about that

 

[spionfox]

Hardly the fault of the education system that one

And they are unlikely to see one on a beach holiday in Malaga

Jade Goody? Oh sorry, thought you said pig.

 

[bocadillo]

These are educations that children should have and if for whatever reason their parents need to take holidays in term time I think that makes them relevant to the discussion and cost is a very relevant factor in order to go somewhere or not.

But not as far as the law is concerned.

 

[Chuck T Masala]

I am orphan. I lost my Dad when I was 12 and my mother when I was a lot older. As I approach my twighlight years I remember the wonderful family holidays I had as a child spending long sunny days in the beach at Margate and spending windy rainy days in a beach hut at Whitsable, the excitement of my first holiday abroad to Majorca and a dozen other happy holiday memories of special time spent with my Mum and my Dad and my siblings. Unrepeatable times.

I can't remember much detail about my education except that I learned about a thousand times as much in the ten years after school/uni than I did in the previous ten. (Except spelink)

We are all different and we reaonably have a different view on how we develop our children, but life is for living as well as learning.

 

[Melton Fox]

I can't remember much detail about my education except that I learned about a thousand times as much in the ten years after school/uni than I did in the previous ten.

And that is the same the world over.

I should imagine EVERY member of this forum has learnt more in the ten years they left school than what they learnt whilst there.

That said, in school it is impossible to teach life experiences of a 16-25 year old, that's something you need to learn after school, you don't have the option to take a week out to study it.

We spend every day learning, it never stops. I'm sure if kids take a day off school they still learn something new. Doesn't make it legal.

 

[Chuck T Masala]

We spend every day learning, it never stops. I'm sure if kids take a day off school they still learn something new. Doesn't make it legal.

But being the law might not make it right either ......for me.

 

[Chuck T Masala]

I dunno about that

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