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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
I take mine out for a week every year...I tag it onto the May half term.....and it is all about the money cos we can go for two weeks then for less than the cost of one week in the summer holidays!

We couldn't afford to go in the summer holidays at all.

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Originally posted by FGG Aka Crocodile Rock:
It depends on the kid though. For those that are performing well it really makes no difference, its the ones that aren't, that are affected by it (as told to me by the headteacher at my childrens primary school)

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Originally posted by pussycatj:
On TV this morning they were discussing parents that take their children out of school to go on holiday.

I understand that money is the problem, but seriously, they don't understand that these children will never catch up on the work missed, the effect on making new friends at the start of Secondary school and how hard it is for the teachers to try and sort this mess out.

I never have and never would, and it's nothing to do with money

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Originally posted by lucifer:
There's too many well educated people nowadays.

Even before the credit panty-bunch we were churning out more well educated people than ever before.

Too many wannabee chiefs, and no one wanting to accept 'lesser' jobs which collectively create, construct and maintain the infrastrucure of the society we all take for granted.

And let's face it; who is smarter..?? I live in a student city and asking one of these rucksack wearing twonks a complex question such as the time, causes them to melt down as their synapses overload. Great at disseminating the works of long dead literary geniuses, or rearranging mathematical algorithms so that they can prove E=MC_Hammer.

Apart from that as thick as two short planks - because they've spent their head so long in a text book it's hard to know where the index starts and their nose ends.

Once this credit munch is finally over, any sensible government would invest muchos Euro in promoting the practical hands on training for a high percentile of the mumbling buffons who currently have as much chance of a well paid job, as I have of being called 'subtle.'

If the present oafs leaving our schools were required to undertake manual apprenticeships in areas that appealed to them (in terms of working at the top end of such jobs); then they could learn the trade, business, profession etc from the roots up..insane an idea as that sounds.

Might well be that with spending more time co-operating with other former bookworms they actually develop an affinity for a job which offers far less financial renumeration, but much more satisfaction for a productive days work.

Take them to Tenerife I say - assuming they can pack their bags unaided, be ripped from their technological necessities and actually *know* where Tenerife is (see Sophie BB).

We presently have the best educated, but cataclysmically thick/naieve/deluded/self absorbed young people in living memory/record.

As Marcus would say w**kers..!! The parents are 'blameless' of course..their Kevin/Tracey is 'special'..not like the other kids..

Anyone for tea and biscuits..?

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I understand that money is the problem, but seriously, they don't understand that these children will never catch up on the work missed

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I never have and never would, and it's nothing to do with money

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Originally posted by Poker Face:
Travel broadens your horizon

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Originally posted by Trollop:

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Originally posted by Poker Face:
Travel broadens your horizon

But what if your parents take you to Blackpool for 2 weeks?

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Originally posted by Poker Face:

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Originally posted by Trollop:

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Originally posted by Poker Face:
Travel broadens your horizon

But what if your parents take you to Blackpool for 2 weeks?

Ahh well .... then you would have a point

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Originally posted by Trollop:

The Pepsi Max broadened my horizons...and my underwear...

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Originally posted by disley21:
My parents would take me out of school for two weeks to go on holiday every year up to a certain point (up to year 10).

Here I am, with my bachelors degree, working towards the equivalent of a masters degree in my chosen profession whilst gaining experience in said profession.

It really messed me up.

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Originally posted by queenshaks:

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Originally posted by Trollop:

The Pepsi Max broadened my horizons...and my underwear...

No comment.

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Originally posted by Trollop:

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Originally posted by disley21:
My parents would take me out of school for two weeks to go on holiday every year up to a certain point (up to year 10).

Here I am, with my bachelors degree, working towards the equivalent of a masters degree in my chosen profession whilst gaining experience in said profession.

It really messed me up.

Yeah but you may have already passed your bachelors degree and have made your first million if you hadnt taken the time off...have you considered that?!

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Originally posted by Trollop:

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Originally posted by disley21:

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Originally posted by Trollop:

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Originally posted by disley21:
My parents would take me out of school for two weeks to go on holiday every year up to a certain point (up to year 10).

Here I am, with my bachelors degree, working towards the equivalent of a masters degree in my chosen profession whilst gaining experience in said profession.

It really messed me up.

Yeah but you may have already passed your bachelors degree and have made your first million if you hadnt taken the time off...have you considered that?!

Damn, foiled again, I hate my parents..

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Originally posted by queenshaks:

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Originally posted by Trollop:

'Ello sexy

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Originally posted by Trollop:


Ello Q! My parents never took me on holiday during school term, so I just bobbed school for two weeks instead!

I shouldnt laugh at that should I Naughty Trollop *smacks self*

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Originally posted by chilligrape:
If we want a holiday on our budget then it has to be in term time,when the holiday companies put prices down during the schoolholidays then we will go then. I don't see we and the kids should miss out because of greedy tour operators. We've always done it and my kids education is going fine.