• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    People take their kids out of school to go on vacations? When did this start? When I was a kid the only time I ever missed 5 days of school was when they thought I had spinal meningitis lol even then they sent all my schoolwork to my house!

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      3 months ago

      Ever since it got expensive. It also used to be possible to get it pre approved but heads are reluctant to do so now even if it for something special.

      However it was being used by schools to hide chronic persistent absence, just massage the figures for those kids who take a lot of time off by saying some of it was “approved” holidays.

      In reality all it does it is protect the vastly inflated holiday prices out of term time as parents have to balance the cost of the fine vs. money saved on the holiday.

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      3 months ago

      Really? Kids missed school all the time around holidays when I was growing up. If there was a three day weekend there were going to be a ton of kids missing that next Monday or the previous Friday depending.

      • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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        3 months ago

        Same, I think it was 2 weeks for me, right at the end of year 8, because my dad got cheap tickets to Barbados for me and my sister (we have family there). This was back in 97. He just told the teacher I’d be off school until after the summer holidays and that was all.

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      3 months ago

      My gran would regularly take me on holiday the last week or 2 of term while in primary school. My parents would get me work I would do during the break from my teacher.

      The reasoning was that the second term ended the prices went through the roof