Matt_B
Well-Known Member
You know me that well do you?
Of course the blind following of a foolish law would not equate to the blind following of a definition within a post.
Beighton, no need to get personal, open your eyes, open your mind. I could even be wrong you know, but I'm guessing I've had more contact with educational systems throughout Europe than you have. what age are your kids?
I agree it was perhaps too personal, but it does appear to be how you have applied to this argument.
I have no kids as I have specified elsewhere in this thread, something I'm guessingyou had read and knew so where mentioning to make a point.
I couldn't care less about the educational system elsewhere in Europe, it has no bearing on my original point. Similarly I would argue that your apparant historical knowledge (you have said you "had" experience, not "have", so I'm guessing you are no longer in the field) of the English educational system is not as relevant as the very current knowledge I have being engaged and living with a head of year teacher, but again it is irrelevant to my point.
As you seem to have forgotten the points here they are in simple bullet form:
- Taking kids out of school for holidays purely for the benefit of cost/destination is illegal
- You argue that on holiday they learn "life lessons". Apparantly they can learn a lot by splashing in the sea, surely they could also learn a lot playing in a school field then?
- The point of school is to teach fact/figures/ideas/ways of thinking, not life lessons. As the title says, life lessons are learnt by living a life. You will not learn alegebra, grammar, history or text book science on holiday, I don't care where you go.
I can make and justify all of those points without needing kids, or being involved with the education system, just by using common sense. Something again that you appear to have mis-placed.