holidays

I agree Trisher . And on that note shall be flying off with our 2 youngest grandsons in 3 days for a holiday in term time !! Of course before everyone's tells me how damaged their education will be they are only 2 and 4 {smile]

But its been a learning experience already , we've talked about air travel , different cultures and geography ( oh and Mickey Mouse )

I agree with Gillybob. Childen should be allowed to take holidays during term-time. When they are very young it would not interfere with their education too much. Perhaps older children should decide for themselves though. We took our children away on holiday when we wanted to, to get bookings, to avoid crowds of people and to save money on off-season rates.

Just to reiterate my earlier post, I think that term time holidays should be allowed but that teachers should not get the blame when the children fall behind. Children will fall behind. That's a given.

You're right Gillybob - sometimes I just sorted out the funding for a day out! Amazing what joy that can bring for a young person who never goes anywhere or does anything fun with their family - but those days out were usually possible in the holiday periods and didn't involve any time off school. Sometimes it just involved finding busfare and picknic treats (how lucky our own children/grandchildren are).

Of course Harrigran, it's not the fact that these children don't get a day out that makes them disadvantaged - It's their family situations that does it!