Selfish Cheapskate Parenting Now Legal.........

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-36277940
In order to get a cheaper holiday it's ok to degrade your child's education. Wonderful. Brainless parents win again. When will our dopey judges move to this planet?

[mikey4444]

I heard this chap on the Today Program this morning, and he sounded tremendously arrogant to me. It appears that he is a serial offender, although he sidestepped the question this morning.

This court case will give carte blanche to every parent who thinks that a holiday abroad, and its always abroad I notice, and never Clacton, is better than their precious offspring attending school.

[dannyk13]

Very magnamimous of them, I'm sure.

[jim360]

"This court case will give carte blanche to every parent who thinks that a holiday abroad, and its [sic] always abroad I notice..."

No it's not. Mine were in the South-West of England. In a mobile home. In a Haven Holiday Camp.

[woofgang]

what gness said....but also.....and I know I sound like an old fart....but expectations have changed such a lot....if my parents couldn’t afford to take us away on hols, then we holidayed at home.....and that didn’t mean money for theme parks and movies...we did the stuff we could afford.

[mikey4444]

Gness....I am much too cynical to even begin to believe that !

[dannyk13]

Mikey 444, Could you give some statistics to prove your statement about where parents take children on holiday.(proven statistics that is)

[mikey4444]

Jim...I am tempted to echo TTT's post of 14:36 today.....how can you tell ?

[mikey4444]

Danny....no, I can't....sorry...its just my own reading of the issue.

[Prudie]

As a one time pupil, teacher and parent this idea that a week or so out of school is permanently damaging to education is pure and utter balderdash. Topics are covered repeatedly. I don't understand why so many have come round to the idea that it's a bad thing to do when the majority of us grew up missing days from school for one reason or another. If you left school learning nothing it was your attitude at fault not missing a few lessons.

[dannyk13]

Well said Prudie.

[jim360]

Mikey... I can't know for sure. But I think, on balance, it's hard to see things going much better.

If anything damaged my education, it was when my maths teacher for three years in the run-up to GCSEs, realising that I was going to pass with flying colours, decided that she couldn't be bothered with my any more. So I spent the better part of three years in maths doing nothing other than eat lunch and maybe complain about why she hadn't taught us about complex numbers yet.

[gness]

Really, Mikey!!! How could you doubt them!!!.... ;-)

Afraid our holidays weren't abroad.....we towed a beat up old caravan around the UK......trekked through our countryside watching birds.....naming trees and flowers and tucking into sandwiches and tea from a flask....which I now know how to clean properly..... ;-(
When No2 child decided, at four, she was going to be a geologist we added books and hammers to our bins and scopes for the rest of our holidays...

I'd say abroad was a distant dream for us.....but UK holidays still gave us the best memories.....and education for the kids I suppose...x

[gness]

Very well said, Prudie....x

[-Talbot-]

don't have children if you value money above their education. simples.



Somehow I don't think I will be taking advice from a bloke who nicks his catchphrases from a meerkat.

[-Talbot-]

Well said Prudie.

[jambutty]

gness - UK hols have given me the best memories too, happy days !

[gness]

I think my attitude comes from believing that it's not the job of the school only to educate my children.....
Home also played a large part in their education......we could develop and nurture their interests which was a darn sight better than faffing about over SATS tests and results....x

[gness]

Indeed, Jam.......we were able, through MrG's work, to travel fairly widely later on.....but the holidays the kids talk about still are the ones in the old caravan in a farm field.....☺

[ToraToraTora]

the overall point is that now the learned judge has now basically destroyed any control the schools had. Selfish arrogant parents have now been given permission to ignore the schools.

[dannyk13]

TTT. tosh tosh tosh